{"id":502,"date":"2007-10-25T21:53:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-25T20:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=502"},"modified":"2007-10-25T21:53:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-25T20:53:00","slug":"mc1r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/mc1r\/","title":{"rendered":"MC1R"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jessiqua\/15368920\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/9\/15368920_0d44fa678e_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a> <br \/> <span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jessiqua\/15368920\/\">someone&#8217;s red hair<\/a>  <br \/>  Originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/jessiqua\/\">jessiqua<\/a> <\/span><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve just seen on BBC that researchers have found out that some <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/sci\/tech\/7062415.stm\">Neanderthals had red hair<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I find this immensely fascinating.  It comes so soon after finding the FoxP2 language gene in Neanderthals.  It&#8217;s like they&#8217;ve suddenly opened a long-lost book.<\/p>\n<p>I find it interesting too that the MC1R gene differs slightly between humans and Neanderthals.  It&#8217;s another piece  of evidence that there was no mixing of the two species.<\/p>\n<p>I still wonder whether mad scientists can forever refrain themselves from resurrecting the Neanderthals.  Surely it can&#8217;t be much more difficult than doing the mammoths, and that&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2007\/06\/070625-dna-resurrection.html\">already being considered<\/a>.<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>someone&#8217;s red hair Originally uploaded by jessiqua I&#8217;ve just seen on BBC that researchers have found out that some Neanderthals had red hair. I find this immensely fascinating. It comes so soon after finding the FoxP2 language gene in Neanderthals. It&#8217;s like they&#8217;ve suddenly opened a long-lost book. I find it interesting too that the MC1R gene differs slightly between humans and Neanderthals. It&#8217;s another piece of evidence that there was no mixing of the two species. I still wonder whether mad scientists can forever refrain themselves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}