{"id":686181,"date":"2021-04-05T16:24:41","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T20:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=686181"},"modified":"2021-04-05T16:24:41","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T20:24:41","slug":"model-reveals-surprising-disconnect-between-physical-characteristics-and-genetic-ancestry-in-certain-populations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=686181","title":{"rendered":"Model reveals surprising disconnect between physical characteristics and genetic ancestry in certain populations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new study by Stanford University biologists finds an explanation for the idea that physical characteristics such as skin pigmentation are &#8220;only skin deep.&#8221; Using genetic modeling, the team has found that when two populations with distinct traits combine over generations, traits of individuals within the resulting &#8220;admixed&#8221; population come to reveal very little about individuals&#8217; ancestry. Their findings were published March 27 in a special edition of the American Journal of Physical Anthropology on race and racism.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-04-reveals-disconnect-physical-characteristics-genetic.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Model reveals surprising disconnect between physical characteristics and genetic ancestry in certain populations<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study by Stanford University biologists finds an explanation for the idea that physical characteristics such as skin pigmentation are &#8220;only skin deep.&#8221; Using genetic modeling, the team has&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-686181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686181","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=686181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686181\/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=686181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=686181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=686181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}