{"id":236118,"date":"2026-04-29T06:15:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T11:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/ancient-dna-study-reveals-human-evolution-is-happening-faster-than-we-thought"},"modified":"2026-04-29T06:15:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T11:15:05","slug":"ancient-dna-study-reveals-human-evolution-is-happening-faster-than-we-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/ancient-dna-study-reveals-human-evolution-is-happening-faster-than-we-thought","title":{"rendered":"Ancient DNA Study Reveals Human Evolution Is Happening Faster Than We Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ancient-dna-study-reveals-human-evolution-is-happening-faster-than-we-thought.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New research challenges long-standing assumptions about human evolution, revealing that natural selection has been more active\u2014and more recent\u2014than once believed. A sweeping analysis of ancient DNA from nearly 16,000 people is reshaping how scientists understand human evolution. By tracking genet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research challenges long-standing assumptions about human evolution, revealing that natural selection has been more active\u2014and more recent\u2014than once believed. A sweeping analysis of ancient DNA from nearly 16,000 people is reshaping how scientists understand human evolution. By tracking genet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236118","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}