{"id":141176,"date":"2022-06-27T07:02:47","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T12:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/new-dna-technology-is-shaking-up-the-branches-of-the-evolutionary-tree"},"modified":"2022-06-27T07:02:47","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T12:02:47","slug":"new-dna-technology-is-shaking-up-the-branches-of-the-evolutionary-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/new-dna-technology-is-shaking-up-the-branches-of-the-evolutionary-tree","title":{"rendered":"New DNA Technology Is Shaking Up The Branches of The Evolutionary Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s5P4uYsK8_c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you look different to your close relatives, you may have felt separate from your family. As a child, during particularly stormy fall outs you might have even hoped it was a sign that you were adopted.<\/p>\n<p>As our new research shows, appearances can be deceptive when it comes to family. New DNA technology is shaking up the family trees of many plants and animals.<\/p>\n<p>The primates, to which humans belong, were once thought to be close relatives of bats because of some similarities in our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/0047248487900583\">skeletons<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flying_primate_hypothesis\">brains<\/a>. However, DNA data now places us in a group that includes rodents (rats and mice) and rabbits. Astonishingly, bats turn out to be more closely related to cows, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn9402-bats-and-horses-get-strangely-chummy\/\">horses<\/a>, and even rhinoceroses than they are to us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you look different to your close relatives, you may have felt separate from your family. As a child, during particularly stormy fall outs you might have even hoped it was a sign that you were adopted. As our new research shows, appearances can be deceptive when it comes to family. New DNA technology is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141176","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}