{"id":739871,"date":"2022-11-04T11:00:01","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T15:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=739871"},"modified":"2022-11-04T11:00:01","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T15:00:01","slug":"human-expansion-1000-years-ago-linked-to-madagascars-loss-of-large-vertebrates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=739871","title":{"rendered":"Human expansion 1,000 years ago linked to Madagascar&#039;s loss of large vertebrates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The island of Madagascar\u2014one of the last large land masses colonized by humans\u2014sits about 250 miles (400 kilometers) off the coast of East Africa. While it&#8217;s still regarded as a place of unique biodiversity, Madagascar long ago lost all its large-bodied vertebrates, including giant lemurs, elephant birds, turtles, and hippopotami. A human genetic study reported in the journal Current Biology on November 4 links these losses in time with the first major expansion of humans on the island, around 1,000 years ago.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-11-human-expansion-years-linked-madagascar.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Human expansion 1,000 years ago linked to Madagascar&#8217;s loss of large vertebrates<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The island of Madagascar\u2014one of the last large land masses colonized by humans\u2014sits about 250 miles (400 kilometers) off the coast of East Africa. While it&#8217;s still regarded as a&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-739871","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\/739871","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=739871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739871\/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=739871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=739871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=739871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}