{"id":239849,"date":"2026-06-28T07:11:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T12:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/scientists-found-an-8-year-old-neanderthal-child-in-a-belgian-cave-and-the-molar-dna-found-is-said-to-be-the-oldest-human-genetic-code-ever-sequenced-turning-one-hillside-into-a-rare-window-on-our-d"},"modified":"2026-06-28T07:11:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T12:11:20","slug":"scientists-found-an-8-year-old-neanderthal-child-in-a-belgian-cave-and-the-molar-dna-found-is-said-to-be-the-oldest-human-genetic-code-ever-sequenced-turning-one-hillside-into-a-rare-window-on-our-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/scientists-found-an-8-year-old-neanderthal-child-in-a-belgian-cave-and-the-molar-dna-found-is-said-to-be-the-oldest-human-genetic-code-ever-sequenced-turning-one-hillside-into-a-rare-window-on-our-d","title":{"rendered":"Scientists found an 8-year-old Neanderthal child in a Belgian cave, and the molar DNA found is said to be the oldest human genetic code ever sequenced, turning one hillside into a rare window on our deep past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-found-an-8-year-old-neanderthal-child-in-a-belgian-cave-and-the-molar-dna-found-is-said-to-be-the-oldest-human-genetic-code-ever-sequenced-turning-one-hillside-into-a-rare-window-on-our-d.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have uncovered the oldest human genetic code from an 8-year-old Neanderthal child in Belgium, offering profound insights into our evolutionary past and Neanderthal development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have uncovered the oldest human genetic code from an 8-year-old Neanderthal child in Belgium, offering profound insights into our evolutionary past and Neanderthal development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239849","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=239849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}