{"id":398076,"date":"2017-11-02T12:11:40","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T16:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2017\/11\/171102121140.htm"},"modified":"2017-11-02T12:11:40","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T16:11:40","slug":"genetic-history-searching-for-the-african-roots-of-noir-marron-communities-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=398076","title":{"rendered":"Genetic history: Searching for the African roots of Noir Marron communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have shown that members of Maroon communities in South America &#8212; formed over four centuries ago by Africans who escaped slavery &#8212; have remarkably preserved their African genetic heritage (98 percent). In contrast, the same cannot be said for African descendants from Brazil and Colombia. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have shown that members of Maroon communities in South America &#8212; formed over four centuries ago by Africans who escaped slavery &#8212; have remarkably preserved their African genetic heritage (98 percent). In contrast, the same cannot be said f&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=398076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":398077,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398076\/revisions\/398077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=398076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=398076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=398076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}