{"id":6645,"date":"2014-11-20T09:00:20","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T16:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myuctv.tv\/?p=6645"},"modified":"2014-11-20T09:00:20","modified_gmt":"2014-11-20T16:00:20","slug":"what-part-neanderthal-are-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/science\/what-part-neanderthal-are-you\/","title":{"rendered":"What Part Neanderthal Are You?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/shows\/28720\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/images\/\/thumbnails\/28720.jpg\" alt=\"8232\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignright\" \/><\/a>Turns out, there&#8217;s a little Neanderthal in all of us.<\/p>\n<p>&bull; In 2010, Svante P\u00e4\u00e4bo and his colleagues unveiled the Neanderthal genome.<\/p>\n<p>&bull; P\u00e4\u00e4bo is a biologist and evolutionary anthropologist. He is also the director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.<\/p>\n<p>&bull; His research shows that <span style=\"background-color: #FFFF00\">Humans and Neanderthals interbred in the prehistoric past<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>&bull; Thus Neanderthal DNA makes up 1% to 2% of the genome of many modern humans&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&bull; &#8230;Except Africans, who have no Neanderthal contribution. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/shows\/28720\">Watch the video to learn why<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>&bull; Our Neanderthal relatives became extinct 30,000 years ago. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/shows\/28720\">See what other extinct forms of humans there are.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What makes humans <i>human?<\/i> Find out:<\/p>\n<p>Watch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/shows\/28720\">A Neanderthal Perspective on Human Origins with Svante P\u00e4\u00e4bo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turns out, there&#8217;s a little Neanderthal in all of us. &bull; In 2010, Svante P\u00e4\u00e4bo and his colleagues unveiled the Neanderthal genome. &bull; P\u00e4\u00e4bo is a biologist and evolutionary anthropologist. He is also the director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. &bull; His research shows that Humans and Neanderthals interbred in the prehistoric [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6645"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}