{"id":243787,"date":"2026-09-08T13:07:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T18:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/researchers-traced-leonardo-da-vincis-family-through-21-generations-and-found-matching-ychromosome-markers-in-six-living-men-from-a-renaissance-family-tomb-could-connect-that-genetic-trail-di"},"modified":"2026-09-08T13:07:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T18:07:14","slug":"researchers-traced-leonardo-da-vincis-family-through-21-generations-and-found-matching-ychromosome-markers-in-six-living-men-from-a-renaissance-family-tomb-could-connect-that-genetic-trail-di","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/researchers-traced-leonardo-da-vincis-family-through-21-generations-and-found-matching-ychromosome-markers-in-six-living-men-from-a-renaissance-family-tomb-could-connect-that-genetic-trail-di","title":{"rendered":"Researchers traced Leonardo da Vinci\u2019s family through 21 generations and found matching Ychromosome markers in six living men from a Renaissance family tomb could connect that genetic trail directly to his time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-traced-leonardo-da-vincis-family-through-21-generations-and-found-matching-ychromosome-markers-in-six-living-men-from-a-renaissance-family-tomb-could-connect-that-genetic-trail-di.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A genetic thread stretches across five centuries, connecting living descendants to the Renaissance master through his prolific father\u2014and newly excavated remains could prove it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A genetic thread stretches across five centuries, connecting living descendants to the Renaissance master through his prolific father\u2014and newly excavated remains could prove it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243787","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=243787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}