{"id":242331,"date":"2026-08-07T01:22:44","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T06:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/two-mysterious-ghost-ancestors-are-hiding-in-our-dna"},"modified":"2026-08-07T01:22:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T06:22:44","slug":"two-mysterious-ghost-ancestors-are-hiding-in-our-dna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/two-mysterious-ghost-ancestors-are-hiding-in-our-dna","title":{"rendered":"Two Mysterious \u2018Ghost\u2019 Ancestors Are Hiding in Our DNA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/two-mysterious-ghost-ancestors-are-hiding-in-our-dna2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new genomic technique has revealed ghost ancestry from two unknown human lineages hidden in modern DNA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new genomic technique has revealed ghost ancestry from two unknown human lineages hidden in modern DNA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242331","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=242331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}