{"id":76908,"date":"2018-03-14T10:23:21","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T17:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/ancient-dna-is-rewriting-human-and-neanderthal-history"},"modified":"2018-03-14T10:23:21","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T17:23:21","slug":"ancient-dna-is-rewriting-human-and-neanderthal-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/ancient-dna-is-rewriting-human-and-neanderthal-history","title":{"rendered":"Ancient DNA Is Rewriting Human (and Neanderthal) History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ancient-dna-is-rewriting-human-and-neanderthal-history.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The genomes of the long dead are turning up all sorts of unexpected and controversial findings.<\/p>\n<p>Geneticist David Reich used to study the living, but now he studies the dead.<\/p>\n<p>The precipitating event came in the form of 40,000-year-old Neanderthal bones found in a Croatian cave. So well-preserved were the bones that they yielded enough DNA for sequencing, and it became Reich\u2019s job in 2007 to analyze the DNA for signs that Neanderthals interbred with humans\u2014a idea he was \u201cdeeply suspicious\u201d of at the time.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/science\/archive\/2018\/03\/ancient-dna-history\/554798\/\">https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/science\/archive\/2018\/03\/ancient-dna-history\/554798\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The genomes of the long dead are turning up all sorts of unexpected and controversial findings. Geneticist David Reich used to study the living, but now he studies the dead. The precipitating event came in the form of 40,000-year-old Neanderthal bones found in a Croatian cave. So well-preserved were the bones that they yielded enough [\u2026]<\/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-76908","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\/76908","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=76908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}