{"id":716262,"date":"2023-05-27T05:32:02","date_gmt":"2023-05-27T05:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=716262"},"modified":"2023-06-06T03:03:30","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T03:03:30","slug":"history-were-the-first-humans-really-australopithecines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/science\/history-were-the-first-humans-really-australopithecines","title":{"rendered":"History: Were the First Humans Really Australopithecines?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The prehistory of humans dates back a minimum of 5 million years ago. That&#8217;s when the first humanlike mammals &#8211; the Australopithecines &#8211; appeared in Central Africa. The prehistoric people likely had leaders &#8211; a hierarchy of some kind &#8211; but we know nothing about them. From around 10,000 B.C., humans started farming and began settling in fertile areas. They built towns and cities and began trading. This is what led to powerful leaders and rulers that soon after morphed into the world&#8217;s first great civilizations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prehistory of humans dates back a minimum of 5 million years ago. That&#8217;s when the first humanlike mammals &#8211; the Australopithecines &#8211; appeared in Central Africa. The prehistoric people<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[348],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-716262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}