{"id":223681,"date":"2025-10-20T10:04:37","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T15:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/neanderthal-human-hybrids-may-have-been-scourged-by-a-genetic-mismatch"},"modified":"2025-10-20T10:04:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T15:04:37","slug":"neanderthal-human-hybrids-may-have-been-scourged-by-a-genetic-mismatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/neanderthal-human-hybrids-may-have-been-scourged-by-a-genetic-mismatch","title":{"rendered":"Neanderthal-human hybrids may have been scourged by a genetic mismatch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/neanderthal-human-hybrids-may-have-been-scourged-by-a-genetic-mismatch2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When <em>Homo sapiens<\/em> and Neanderthals interbred, a genetic variation affecting red blood cells may have hindered reproduction in women who were hybrids, and this might have played a part in Neanderthals\u2019 demise.<\/p>\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/author\/james-woodford\/\">James Woodford<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Homo sapiens and Neanderthals interbred, a genetic variation affecting red blood cells may have hindered reproduction in women who were hybrids, and this might have played a part in Neanderthals\u2019 demise. By James Woodford<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1499,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223681","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}