{"id":646387,"date":"2020-02-13T18:16:53","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T22:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=646387"},"modified":"2020-02-13T18:16:53","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T22:16:53","slug":"ghost-ancestors-african-dna-study-detects-mysterious-human-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=646387","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Ghost&#039; ancestors: African DNA study detects mysterious human species"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists examining the genomes of West Africans have detected signs that a mysterious extinct human species interbred with our own species tens of thousands of years ago in Africa, the latest evidence of humankind&#8217;s complicated genetic ancestry.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?a=s3hCm7XUgKE:FnN7sw0iqNY:yIl2AUoC8zA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?a=s3hCm7XUgKE:FnN7sw0iqNY:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?a=s3hCm7XUgKE:FnN7sw0iqNY:V_sGLiPBpWU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~r\/reuters\/scienceNews\/~3\/s3hCm7XUgKE\/ghost-ancestors-african-dna-study-detects-mysterious-human-species-idUSKBN2072X9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">&#8216;Ghost&#8217; ancestors: African DNA study detects mysterious human species<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Reuters Science News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists examining the genomes of West Africans have detected signs that a mysterious extinct human species interbred with our own species tens of thousands of years ago in Africa, the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genaero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646387","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=646387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646387\/revisions"}],"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=646387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=646387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=646387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}