{"id":25400,"date":"2016-05-05T20:02:37","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T03:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/humans-are-fatter-than-primates-but-it-fuels-our-bigger-brains"},"modified":"2017-04-24T21:00:08","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T04:00:08","slug":"humans-are-fatter-than-primates-but-it-fuels-our-bigger-brains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/humans-are-fatter-than-primates-but-it-fuels-our-bigger-brains","title":{"rendered":"Humans Are Fatter Than Primates, But It Fuels Our Bigger Brains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/humans-are-fatter-than-primates-but-it-fuels-our-bigger-brains.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Left hemisphere of J. Pi\u0142sudski\u2019s brain, lateral view.<\/p>\n<p>A new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2016\/05\/160504141118.htm\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a> has found that a faster metabolism is the main reason that humans were able to evolve bigger <strong>brains<\/strong> than other closely related apes. Humans burned 635 more calories per day than gorillas, and a whopping 820 more calories per day than the orangutans in the study.<\/p>\n<p>Although the study <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/vaop\/ncurrent\/full\/nature17654.html\">findings<\/a> seem promising, more research on the issue is required since the research was performed only on adults.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/ambienteja.info\/2016\/05\/06\/humans-are-fatter-than-primates-but-it-fuels-our-bigger.html\">http:\/\/ambienteja.info\/2016\/05\/06\/humans-are-fatter-than-pri...igger.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Left hemisphere of J. Pi\u0142sudski\u2019s brain, lateral view. A new study has found that a faster metabolism is the main reason that humans were able to evolve bigger brains than other closely related apes. Humans burned 635 more calories per day than gorillas, and a whopping 820 more calories per day than the orangutans in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1506,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-food","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25400","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25400"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50586,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25400\/revisions\/50586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}