{"id":122544,"date":"2021-05-13T06:22:21","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T13:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/piles-of-ancient-poop-reveal-extinction-event-in-human-gut-bacteria"},"modified":"2021-05-13T06:22:21","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T13:22:21","slug":"piles-of-ancient-poop-reveal-extinction-event-in-human-gut-bacteria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/piles-of-ancient-poop-reveal-extinction-event-in-human-gut-bacteria","title":{"rendered":"Piles of ancient poop reveal \u2018extinction event\u2019 in human gut bacteria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/piles-of-ancient-poop-reveal-extinction-event-in-human-gut-bacteria2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They suggest that over the past millennium, the human gut has experienced an \u201cextinction event,\u201d losing dozens of species and becoming significantly less diverse, says lead author and Harvard Medical School microbiologist Aleksandar Kostic. \u201cThese are things we don\u2019t get back.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>First DNA from paleofeces show people 1000 years ago in U.S., Mexico had much more diverse gut microbes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They suggest that over the past millennium, the human gut has experienced an \u201cextinction event,\u201d losing dozens of species and becoming significantly less diverse, says lead author and Harvard Medical School microbiologist Aleksandar Kostic. \u201cThese are things we don\u2019t get back.\u201d First DNA from paleofeces show people 1000 years ago in U.S., Mexico had much [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-existential-risks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}