{"id":70882,"date":"2013-04-18T09:41:30","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T14:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=70882"},"modified":"2013-04-18T09:41:30","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T14:41:30","slug":"hobbits-vs-humans-bigger-brains-than-once-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2013\/04\/18\/70882-hobbits-vs-humans-bigger-brains-than-once-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"Hobbits vs. Humans: Bigger Brains Than Once Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itechpost.com\/articles\/7985\/20130417\/hobbits-vs-humans-bigger-brains-once-thought.htm\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-70883 no-lazyload\" alt=\"one-hemisphere-of-a-healthy-brain-l-is-pictured-next-to-one-hemisphere-of-a-brain-of-a-person-sufferin-the-neuropsychiatry-division-of-the-belle-idee-university-hospital-in-chene-b.jpg 430\u00d7273 pixels\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/one-hemisphere-of-a-healthy-brain-l-is-pictured-next-to-one-hemisphere-of-a-brain-of-a-person-sufferin-the-neuropsychiatry-division-of-the-belle-idee-university-hospital-in-chene-b.jpg-430\u00d7273-pixels-300x189.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/one-hemisphere-of-a-healthy-brain-l-is-pictured-next-to-one-hemisphere-of-a-brain-of-a-person-sufferin-the-neuropsychiatry-division-of-the-belle-idee-university-hospital-in-chene-b.jpg-430\u00d7273-pixels-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/one-hemisphere-of-a-healthy-brain-l-is-pictured-next-to-one-hemisphere-of-a-brain-of-a-person-sufferin-the-neuropsychiatry-division-of-the-belle-idee-university-hospital-in-chene-b.jpg-430\u00d7273-pixels.jpg 426w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>iTech Post.com:<\/em> Ancient humans that bear a resemblance to the fictional hobbit creatures apparently had bigger brains than we previously gave them credit for.<\/p>\n<p>The species known as Homo floresiensis was previously thought to have a brain volume of 400 cc, but it was actually 426 cc, bringing their brain size to roughly the same as a chimpanzee. That is, compared to about 1500 cc we currently have as Homo sapiens.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers determined the larger brain size with a high-definition CT scanner.<\/p>\n<p>The remnants of the &#8220;hobbits&#8221; were discovered on the island of Flores, part of Indonesia, in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>The individuals were roughly three and a half feet tall, and had short legs when compared to their arms and feet.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.itechpost.com\/articles\/7985\/20130417\/hobbits-vs-humans-bigger-brains-once-thought.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>iTech Post.com: Ancient humans that bear a resemblance to the fictional hobbit creatures apparently had bigger brains than&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":70883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[495,148,159,152],"tags":[1910,221],"class_list":["post-70882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-miscellaneous","category-hobbit","category-torn-community","category-tolkien","tag-species","tag-the-hobbit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/one-hemisphere-of-a-healthy-brain-l-is-pictured-next-to-one-hemisphere-of-a-brain-of-a-person-sufferin-the-neuropsychiatry-division-of-the-belle-idee-university-hospital-in-chene-b.jpg-430\u00d7273-pixels.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-irg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/85"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70882"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70885,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70882\/revisions\/70885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}