{"id":914888,"date":"2026-06-23T15:13:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T20:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/23\/new-study-challenges-long-held-idea-that-our-ancestors-simply-got-bigger-over-time\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T15:13:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T20:13:41","slug":"new-study-challenges-long-held-idea-that-our-ancestors-simply-got-bigger-over-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/23\/new-study-challenges-long-held-idea-that-our-ancestors-simply-got-bigger-over-time\/","title":{"rendered":"New Study Challenges Long-Held Idea that Our Ancestors Simply Got Bigger Over Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature For decades, paleoanthropologists assumed that hominins &#8212; the lineage leading to modern humans &#8212; gradually grew larger over millions of years.<br \/>\nThe post New Study Challenges Long-Held Idea that Our Ancestors Simply Got Bigger Over Time appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sci.news\/othersciences\/anthropology\/hominin-body-size-evolution-14864.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Leigha Mote<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature For decades, paleoanthropologists assumed that hominins &#8212; the lineage leading to modern humans &#8212; gradually grew larger over millions of years. The post New Study Challenges Long-Held Idea that Our Ancestors Simply Got Bigger Over Time appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News&#8230;Read MoreLeigha Mote<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":914889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1983,536,3437],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-914888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-challenges","category-science-nature","category-study"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=914888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/914889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}