{"id":2764,"date":"2009-05-19T18:01:24","date_gmt":"2009-05-20T01:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/47\/common-ancestor-of-humans-modern-primates-extraordinary-fossil-is-47-million-years-old\/"},"modified":"2009-05-19T18:01:24","modified_gmt":"2009-05-20T01:01:24","slug":"common-ancestor-of-humans-modern-primates-extraordinary-fossil-is-47-million-years-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/47\/common-ancestor-of-humans-modern-primates-extraordinary-fossil-is-47-million-years-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Ancestor Of Humans, Modern Primates? &#8216;Extraordinary&#8217; Fossil Is 47 Million Years Old"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>ScienceDaily (<strong>May 19<\/strong>, 2009) \u2014 Scientists have found a <strong>47<\/strong>-million-year-old human ancestor. Discovered in Messel Pit, <strong>Germany<\/strong>, the fossil, described as <em>Darwinius masillae<\/em>, is 20 times older than most fossils that explain human evolution.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a title=\"Common Ancestor Of Humans, Modern Primates? &#39;Extraordinary&#39; Fossil Is 47 Million Years Old\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2009\/05\/090519104643.htm\">Common Ancestor Of Humans, Modern Primates? &#8216;Extraordinary&#8217; Fossil Is 47 Million Years Old<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ScienceDaily (May 19, 2009) \u2014 Scientists have found a 47-million-year-old human ancestor. Discovered in Messel Pit, Germany, the fossil, described as Darwinius masillae, is 20 times older than most fossils that explain human evolution. Common Ancestor Of Humans, Modern Primates? &#8216;Extraordinary&#8217; Fossil Is 47 Million Years Old<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-26"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}