{"id":79216,"date":"2018-06-01T04:02:22","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T11:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/neuroscientists-uncover-the-roots-of-the-uniquely-large-human-brain"},"modified":"2018-06-01T04:02:22","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T11:02:22","slug":"neuroscientists-uncover-the-roots-of-the-uniquely-large-human-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/neuroscientists-uncover-the-roots-of-the-uniquely-large-human-brain","title":{"rendered":"Neuroscientists Uncover the Roots of the Uniquely Large Human Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/neuroscientists-uncover-the-roots-of-the-uniquely-large-human-brain2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, an international team of scientists announced a new explanation for the evolution of brain size expansion: Unique genes that, to date, have only been found in humans. They\u2019re called NOTCHN2NL genes and so far the scientists have identified eight different versions of them.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/45398-big-brains-humans-notch-genes-evolution\">https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/45398-big-brains-humans-notch-genes-evolution<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, an international team of scientists announced a new explanation for the evolution of brain size expansion: Unique genes that, to date, have only been found in humans. They\u2019re called NOTCHN2NL genes and so far the scientists have identified eight different versions of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79216","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}