{"id":675484,"date":"2020-12-09T17:00:13","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T21:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=675484"},"modified":"2020-12-09T17:00:13","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T21:00:13","slug":"researcher-adds-to-timeline-of-human-evolution-by-studying-an-island-fox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=675484","title":{"rendered":"Researcher adds to timeline of human evolution by studying an island fox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly two decades ago, a small-bodied &#8220;human-like&#8221; fossil, Homo floresiensis, was discovered on an island in Indonesia. Some scientists have credited the find, now nicknamed &#8220;Hobbit,&#8221; as representative of a human ancestor who developed dwarfed features after living on the island, while others suggest it represents a modern human suffering from some type of disease because of its distinct human-like face and small brain.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2020-12-timeline-human-evolution-island-fox.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Researcher adds to timeline of human evolution by studying an island fox<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly two decades ago, a small-bodied &#8220;human-like&#8221; fossil, Homo floresiensis, was discovered on an island in Indonesia. Some scientists have credited the find, now nicknamed &#8220;Hobbit,&#8221; as representative of a&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-675484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=675484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=675484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=675484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=675484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}