{"id":238914,"date":"2026-06-13T14:24:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T19:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/new-discoveries-challenge-everything-we-knew-about-brain-evolution"},"modified":"2026-06-13T14:24:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T19:24:19","slug":"new-discoveries-challenge-everything-we-knew-about-brain-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/new-discoveries-challenge-everything-we-knew-about-brain-evolution","title":{"rendered":"New Discoveries Challenge Everything We Knew About Brain Evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sKZ18vfweC8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Support this channel on Patreon to help me make this a full time job: \/ whatdamath (Unreleased videos, extra footage, DMs, no ads)<br \/> Alternatively, PayPal donations can be sent here: <a href=\"http:\/\/paypal.me\/whatdamath\">http:\/\/paypal.me\/whatdamath<\/a>.<br \/> Get a Wonderful Person Tee: <a href=\"https:\/\/teespring.com\/stores\/whatdamath\">https:\/\/teespring.com\/stores\/whatdamath<\/a>.<br \/> More cool designs are on Amazon: <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3QFIrFX\">https:\/\/amzn.to\/3QFIrFX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about a few studies that explain how the human brain developed complexity.<br \/> Links:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/linkinghub.elsevier.com\/retri\">https:\/\/linkinghub.elsevier.com\/retri<\/a>\u2026<br \/> Other videos:<br \/> \u2022 Surprise Evidence That Gut Microbes Direct\u2026<br \/> \u2022 Mindblowing Discoveries About Bacteria Liv\u2026<br \/> \u2022 Direct Connection Between Gut Microbiome a\u2026<br \/> #brain #biology #evolution.<\/p>\n<p>0:00 Discoveries about the evolution of the brain.<br \/> 1:20 800 Million years ago\u2026 how it all began.<br \/> 3:10 Did nervous system evolve multiple times? Comb jellies.<br \/> 4:45 Big brains \u2014 primates vs octopuses.<br \/> 9:20 Human brains and human intelligence genes.<br \/> 11:20 Gut microbes and fuel for the brain.<br \/> 12:20 Conclusions and implications.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy and please subscribe.<\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin\/Ethereum to spare? Donate them here to help this channel grow!<br \/> bc1qnkl3nk0zt7w0xzrgur9pnkcduj7a3xxllcn7d4<br \/> or ETH: 0x60f088B10b03115405d313f964BeA93eF0Bd3DbF<\/p>\n<p>The hardware used to record these videos:<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/new-discoveries-challenge-everything-we-knew-about-brain-evolution\">Continue reading \u201cNew Discoveries Challenge Everything We Knew About Brain Evolution\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Support this channel on Patreon to help me make this a full time job: \/ whatdamath (Unreleased videos, extra footage, DMs, no ads) Alternatively, PayPal donations can be sent here: http:\/\/paypal.me\/whatdamath. Get a Wonderful Person Tee: https:\/\/teespring.com\/stores\/whatdamath. More cool designs are on Amazon: https:\/\/amzn.to\/3QFIrFX Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1318,1523,1761,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-bitcoin","category-computing","category-cryptocurrencies","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}