{"id":1370,"date":"2004-10-27T20:36:51","date_gmt":"2004-10-28T00:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1370"},"modified":"2004-10-27T20:36:51","modified_gmt":"2004-10-28T00:36:51","slug":"brain-the-size-of-a-grapefruit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1370","title":{"rendered":"brain the size of a grapefruit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just want to say that the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/sci\/tech\/3948165.stm\">hominid<\/a> remains discovered in Indonesia, of a wholly unknown species, extinct no more than 12,000 years ago, tool-making and, if it were to get to the island, at least descended from a boat-building primates, is one of the most wonderful scientific stories of my lifetime. The creature was only a metre tall, and a brain the size of a chimpanzee&#8217;s &#8212; 380cc.<\/p>\n\n<p>Oh, and one more thing. <em>Nature,<\/em> where the real story appears,  wants $30.00 for a peek at a single article. Even a creature with a brain the size of a grapefruit could be smarter and more moral than that.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just want to say that the hominid remains discovered in Indonesia, of a wholly unknown species, extinct no more than 12,000 years ago, tool-making and, if it were to get to the island, at least descended from a boat-building &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1370\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1370\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}