{"id":737,"date":"2008-11-02T18:12:16","date_gmt":"2008-11-02T17:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=737"},"modified":"2008-11-02T18:12:16","modified_gmt":"2008-11-02T17:12:16","slug":"none-to-carry-icemans-torch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=737","title":{"rendered":"None to carry Iceman&#039;s torch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I meant to do more substantial blogging stuff this weekend but life had other plans. <a href=\"http:\/\/dsc.discovery.com\/news\/2008\/10\/31\/oetzi-genetic-legacy.html\" target=\"_blank\">This<\/a> is interesting though, if a little sad:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gene scientists delving into the 5,300-year-old remains of Oetzi the Iceman, the mysterious mummified man found high in the Alps, say he most likely has no modern-day relatives.<\/p>\n<p>Italian and British experts looked into the mitochondrial DNA &#8212; genetic material handed on down the maternal line &#8212; teased from Oetzi&#8217;s body at the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology in Bolzano, Italy.<\/p>\n<p>Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is very stable, changing only gradually as it is handed down the generations, which means it is an excellent yardstick for genealogy.<\/p>\n<p>Oetzi&#8217;s mtDNA belonged to a broad genetic category called K1, which is still common in Europe today, the investigators reported on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>However, modern Europeans today belong to three sub-lineages of K1, whereas Oetzi&#8217;s sub-lineage has most probably petered out.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I meant to do more substantial blogging stuff this weekend but life had other plans. This is interesting though, if a little sad: Gene scientists delving into the 5,300-year-old remains of Oetzi the Iceman, the mysterious mummified man found high in the Alps, say he most likely has no modern-day relatives. Italian and British experts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[37,8,63],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}