{"id":398168,"date":"2017-11-02T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T16:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=84a28b573f745b2c689a24fe03b394d7"},"modified":"2017-11-02T12:00:06","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T16:00:06","slug":"genetic-history-searching-for-the-african-roots-of-noir-marron-communities-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=398168","title":{"rendered":"Genetic history: Searching for the African roots of Noir Marron communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New genetic data bear witness to transatlantic ties severed by slavery and triangular trade. Scientists from the Anthropologie Mol\u00e9culaire et Imagerie de Synth\u00e8se (CNRS\/Universit\u00e9 Toulouse III &#8211; Paul Sabatier\/Paris Descartes University) and Ecological Anthropology and Ethnobiology (CNRS\/MNHN) research units have shown that members of Maroon communities in South America &#8211; formed over four centuries ago by Africans who escaped slavery &#8211; have remarkably preserved their African genetic heritage (98%). In contrast, the same cannot be said for African-descendants from Brazil and Colombia. The researchers&#8217; findings are published in the American Journal of Human Genetics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New genetic data bear witness to transatlantic ties severed by slavery and triangular trade. Scientists from the Anthropologie Mol&eacute;culaire et Imagerie de Synth&egrave;se (CNRS\/Universit&eacute; Toulouse III &#8211; Paul Sabatier\/Paris Descartes University) and Ecological Anthropology and Ethnobiology (CNRS\/MNHN) research units have shown that members of Maroon communities in South America &#8211; formed over four centuries ago by Africans who escaped slavery &#8211; have remarkably preserved their African genetic heritage (98%). In contrast, the same cannot be said for African-descendants from Brazil and Colombia. The researchers&#8217; findings are published in the American Journal of Human Genetics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398168","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"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=398168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":398169,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398168\/revisions\/398169"}],"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=398168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=398168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=398168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}