{"id":228535,"date":"2026-01-07T21:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T03:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/hominin-fossils-from-morocco-may-be-close-ancestors-of-modern-humans"},"modified":"2026-01-07T21:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T03:07:08","slug":"hominin-fossils-from-morocco-may-be-close-ancestors-of-modern-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/hominin-fossils-from-morocco-may-be-close-ancestors-of-modern-humans","title":{"rendered":"Hominin fossils from Morocco may be close ancestors of modern humans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hominin-fossils-from-morocco-may-be-close-ancestors-of-modern-humans2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The jawbones and vertebrae of a hominin that lived 773,000 years ago have been found in North Africa and could represent a common ancestor of <em>Homo sapiens,<\/em> Neanderthals and Denisovans.<\/p>\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/author\/james-woodford\/\">James Woodford<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The jawbones and vertebrae of a hominin that lived 773,000 years ago have been found in North Africa and could represent a common ancestor of Homo sapiens, Neanderthals and Denisovans. 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":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228535","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=228535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}