{"id":242014,"date":"2026-08-01T16:06:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T21:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/the-genome-of-a-longextinct-ancient-human-is-hiding-within-us"},"modified":"2026-08-01T16:06:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T21:06:20","slug":"the-genome-of-a-longextinct-ancient-human-is-hiding-within-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/the-genome-of-a-longextinct-ancient-human-is-hiding-within-us","title":{"rendered":"The genome of a longextinct ancient human is hiding within us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-genome-of-a-longextinct-ancient-human-is-hiding-within-us.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We all have bits of DNA from a long-lost \u201cghost ancestor\u201d inside us \u2013 and by putting all the different bits together, we might be able to reconstruct their genome<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all have bits of DNA from a long-lost \u201cghost ancestor\u201d inside us \u2013 and by putting all the different bits together, we might be able to reconstruct their genome<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242014","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=242014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}