{"id":6052,"date":"2018-04-09T12:33:10","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T16:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=6052"},"modified":"2018-05-23T13:09:32","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T17:09:32","slug":"homo-sapiens-in-arabia-by-85000-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/homo-sapiens-in-arabia-by-85000-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Homo sapiens in Arabia by 85,000 years ago<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0<em>Homo sapiens\u00a0<\/em>fossil uncovered in the Arabian desert is estimated to be at least 85,000 years old\u2014the oldest human fossil found to date\u00a0outside of Africa and the Levant. The fossil finger bones were unearthed at Al Wusta, in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41559-018-0518-2\" target=\"_blank\">Original paper<\/a> published April 9, 2018<br \/>\n<strong>Canadian co-author: <\/strong>Jay Stock, University of Western Ontario &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:jstock8@uwo.ca\" target=\"_blank\">jstock8@uwo.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0Homo sapiens\u00a0fossil uncovered in the Arabian desert is estimated to be at least 85,000 years old\u2014the oldest human fossil found to date\u00a0outside of Africa and the Levant. The fossil finger bones were unearthed at Al Wusta, in Saudi Arabia. Original paper published April 9, 2018 Canadian co-author: Jay Stock, University of Western Ontario &#8211;\u00a0jstock8@uwo.ca<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1zC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6052"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6100,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6052\/revisions\/6100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}