{"id":92438,"date":"2019-06-21T07:22:52","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T14:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/neanderthal-and-unknown-human-ancestor-dna-found-in-the-dark-heart-of-chromosomes"},"modified":"2019-06-21T07:22:52","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T14:22:52","slug":"neanderthal-and-unknown-human-ancestor-dna-found-in-the-dark-heart-of-chromosomes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/neanderthal-and-unknown-human-ancestor-dna-found-in-the-dark-heart-of-chromosomes","title":{"rendered":"Neanderthal and unknown human ancestor DNA found in the \u201cdark heart\u201d of chromosomes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/neanderthal-and-unknown-human-ancestor-dna-found-in-the-dark-heart-of-chromosomes2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Genes get shuffled and re-dealt with every new generation, meaning many are relatively recent. But while exploring the \u201cdark heart\u201d of the human genome, geneticists have now found some of the most ancient pieces of DNA, inherited from Neanderthals and an as-yet-unknown human relative, which may be affecting our sense of smell to this day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genes get shuffled and re-dealt with every new generation, meaning many are relatively recent. But while exploring the \u201cdark heart\u201d of the human genome, geneticists have now found some of the most ancient pieces of DNA, inherited from Neanderthals and an as-yet-unknown human relative, which may be affecting our sense of smell to this day.<\/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-92438","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\/92438","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=92438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}