{"id":699827,"date":"2010-03-24T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:2240236"},"modified":"2010-03-24T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T18:00:00","slug":"dna-reveals-prehistoric-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/699827","title":{"rendered":"DNA reveals prehistoric surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><DIV align=center><br \/>\n<TABLE id=table1><br \/>\n<TBODY><br \/>\n<TR><br \/>\n<TD><A href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/7348103\" ><IMG data-recalc-dims=\"1\" border=1 src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/msnbcmedia.msn.com\/j\/MSNBC\/Components\/Photo\/_new\/100324-coslog-skulls-hlarge-830a.hlarge.jpg?resize=433%2C273\" width=\"433\" height=\"273\"><\/A><BR><br \/>\n<DIV align=right><FONT size=1 face=Tahoma align=\"right\">Mandel Ngan \/ AFP &#8211; Getty Images<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/TD><\/TR><br \/>\n<TR><br \/>\n<TD><br \/>\n<DIV align=left><FONT size=1 face=Verdana align=\"left\"><STRONG><A href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/7348103\" >Click for interactive:<\/A><\/STRONG> Skulls of early Homo sapiens (right) and a <BR>Neanderthal (left, in background) sit at the Smithsonian&#8217;s National Museum <BR>of Natural History. Scientists say a third hominin group may have co-existed <BR>with those two groups 40,000 years ago. Click on the image to learn more <BR>about human evolution, in the past and perhaps in the future.<BR><br \/>\n<HR><br \/>\n<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/TD><\/TR><\/TBODY><\/TABLE><\/DIV><br \/>\n<P>A DNA sample taken from an ancient pinky bone suggests that a previously unknown group of human ancestors mixed it up with Neanderthals and modern humans 40,000 years ago. Was it a completely different species? Too early to say, but it might depend on what your definition of &#8220;species&#8221; is.<\/P>&#8230;(<a href=\"http:\/\/cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com\/archive\/2010\/03\/24\/2240236.aspx\">read more<\/a>)<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com\/aggbug.aspx?PostID=2240236\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mandel Ngan \/ AFP &#8211; Getty Images Click for interactive: Skulls of early Homo sapiens (right) and a Neanderthal (left, in background) sit at the Smithsonian&#8217;s National Museum of Natural History. Scientists say a third hominin group may have co-existed with those two groups 40,000 years ago. Click on the image to learn more about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3300,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-699827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2W3x","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3300"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}