{"id":126541,"date":"2021-08-20T18:23:13","date_gmt":"2021-08-21T01:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/new-clue-to-human-evolutions-biggest-mystery-emerges-in-philippines"},"modified":"2021-08-20T18:23:13","modified_gmt":"2021-08-21T01:23:13","slug":"new-clue-to-human-evolutions-biggest-mystery-emerges-in-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/new-clue-to-human-evolutions-biggest-mystery-emerges-in-philippines","title":{"rendered":"New clue to human evolution\u2019s biggest mystery emerges in Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-clue-to-human-evolutions-biggest-mystery-emerges-in-philippines2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Denisovan DNA lives on in some humans today because, once our Homo sapien ancestors encountered the Denisovans, they had sex with them and gave birth to babies \u2014 something geneticists call admixture. By analyzing current-day genetic data, we can look back into human history.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Geneticists have found that a Philippine ethnic group known as the Ayta Magbukon has the highest level of Denisovan ancestry in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denisovan DNA lives on in some humans today because, once our Homo sapien ancestors encountered the Denisovans, they had sex with them and gave birth to babies \u2014 something geneticists call admixture. By analyzing current-day genetic data, we can look back into human history. Geneticists have found that a Philippine ethnic group known as the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,385,412,1901],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-evolution","category-genetics","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126541","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}