{"id":731704,"date":"2022-08-07T10:20:43","date_gmt":"2022-08-07T14:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=731704"},"modified":"2022-08-07T10:20:43","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T14:20:43","slug":"no-the-human-brain-did-not-shrink-3000-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=731704","title":{"rendered":"No, the human brain did not shrink 3,000 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did the 12th century B.C.E. &#8212; a time when humans were forging great empires and developing new forms of written text &#8212; coincide with an evolutionary reduction in brain size? Think again, says a team of researchers whose new paper refutes a hypothesis that&#8217;s growing increasingly popular among the science community.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2022\/08\/220807102043.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">No, the human brain did not shrink 3,000 years ago<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ScienceDaily&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did the 12th century B.C.E. &#8212; a time when humans were forging great empires and developing new forms of written text &#8212; coincide with an evolutionary reduction in brain size?&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-731704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genaero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731704","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=731704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731704\/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=731704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=731704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=731704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}