{"id":10082,"date":"2011-08-30T14:19:01","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T14:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/08\/30\/svante-paabo-dna-clues-to-our\/"},"modified":"2011-08-30T14:19:01","modified_gmt":"2011-08-30T14:19:01","slug":"svante-paabo-dna-clues-to-our","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/30\/svante-paabo-dna-clues-to-our\/","title":{"rendered":"Svante Paabo: DNA clues to our inner neanderthal"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Sharing the results of a massive, worldwide study, geneticist Svante P\u00c3\u00a4\u00c3\u00a4bo shows the DNA proof that early humans mated with Neanderthals after we moved out of Africa. (Yes, many of us have Neanderthal DNA.) He also shows how a tiny bone from a baby finger was enough to identify a whole new humanoid species.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Humanoid? <\/em> Whatever&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><!--copy and paste--><object width=\"526\" height=\"374\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/video.ted.com\/assets\/player\/swf\/EmbedPlayer.swf\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"\/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><param name=\"bgColor\" value=\"#ffffff\"><\/param><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"vu=http:\/\/video.ted.com\/talk\/stream\/2011G\/Blank\/SvantePaabo_2011G-320k.mp4&#038;su=http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/tedindex\/embed-posters\/SvantePaabo_2011G-embed.jpg&#038;vw=512&#038;vh=288&#038;ap=0&#038;ti=1213&#038;lang=eng&#038;introDuration=15330&#038;adDuration=4000&#038;postAdDuration=830&#038;adKeys=talk=svante_paeaebo_dna_clues_to_our_inner_neanderthal;year=2011;theme=a_taste_of_tedglobal_2011;theme=evolution_s_genius;theme=new_on_ted_com;event=TEDGlobal+2011;tag=Science;tag=biology;tag=dna;tag=evolution;&#038;preAdTag=tconf.ted\/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sharing the results of a massive, worldwide study, geneticist Svante P\u00c3\u00a4\u00c3\u00a4bo shows the DNA proof that early humans mated with Neanderthals after we moved out of Africa. (Yes, many of us have Neanderthal DNA.) He also shows how a tiny bone from a baby finger was enough to identify a whole new humanoid species. Humanoid? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/30\/svante-paabo-dna-clues-to-our\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Svante Paabo: DNA clues to our inner neanderthal<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2CC","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10082"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}