{"id":25037,"date":"2026-11-05T00:51:51","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T08:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dragons-web.com\/wp\/?p=25037"},"modified":"2026-11-05T00:51:51","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T08:51:51","slug":"flat-feet-may-have-helped-neanderthals-stay-stable-while-carrying-heavy-loads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dragons-web.com\/wp\/2026\/11\/05\/flat-feet-may-have-helped-neanderthals-stay-stable-while-carrying-heavy-loads\/","title":{"rendered":"Flat feet may have helped Neanderthals stay stable while carrying heavy loads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In all likelihood, the Neanderthals had flat feet. But it was not a defect at all. Instead, it was the consequence of a precise functional strategy to reduce impact stress under heavy loads and maximize stability on mountainous or rough terrain.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-11-flat-feet-neanderthals-stay-stable.html\">Go to story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In all likelihood, the Neanderthals had flat feet. But it was not a defect at all. Instead, it was the consequence of a precise functional strategy to reduce impact stress under heavy loads and maximize stability on mountainous or rough terrain.Go to story<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":25038,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2490,736],"tags":[4039,2491],"class_list":["post-25037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-evolution","category-science-news","tag-a","tag-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dragons-web.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dragons-web.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dragons-web.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragons-web.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragons-web.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dragons-web.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25039,"href":"https:\/\/dragons-web.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25037\/revisions\/25039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragons-web.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dragons-web.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragons-web.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragons-web.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}