{"id":746510,"date":"2023-01-25T15:03:03","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T19:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=746510"},"modified":"2023-01-25T15:03:03","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T19:03:03","slug":"large-mammals-shaped-the-evolution-of-humans-in-africa-says-ecologist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=746510","title":{"rendered":"Large mammals shaped the evolution of humans in Africa, says ecologist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That humans originated in Africa is widely accepted. But it&#8217;s not generally recognized how unique features of Africa&#8217;s ecology were responsible for the crucial evolutionary transitions from forest-inhabiting fruit-eater to savanna-dwelling hunter. These were founded on Earth movements and aided physically by Africa&#8217;s seasonal aridity, bedrock-derived soils and absence of barriers to movements between north and south.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-01-large-mammals-evolution-humans-africa.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Large mammals shaped the evolution of humans in Africa, says ecologist<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That humans originated in Africa is widely accepted. But it&#8217;s not generally recognized how unique features of Africa&#8217;s ecology were responsible for the crucial evolutionary transitions from forest-inhabiting fruit-eater to&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-746510","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\/746510","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=746510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746510\/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=746510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=746510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=746510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}