{"id":56818,"date":"2017-05-30T07:00:20","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T11:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.com\/?p=56818"},"modified":"2018-01-04T11:23:57","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T16:23:57","slug":"uncommon-knowledge-is-your-dad-a-monkeys-uncle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/2017\/uncommon-knowledge-is-your-dad-a-monkeys-uncle\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Knowledge: Is Your Dad a Monkey&#8217;s Uncle?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/product\/monkey-bar-tool-set?source=blog_uk_053017\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-56820 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/41813_monkeybar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"575\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Your dad may have given you a lot of things: a love of Bond movies, his old jazz LPs, male pattern baldness. But whatever your inheritance, all dads pass one thing along to their sons\u2014their Y chromosomes. Smaller and stumpier than the X chromosomes shared by men and women, the Y has been passed along through generations of male mammals for millions of years. But because it has only a few hundred genes versus the X\u2019s thousands, geneticists long thought that the Y was wasting away, becoming the wisdom teeth of the genome. More recent research suggests that the Y chromosome is actually a hotbed of evolution. We know that we share 98% of our DNA with our closest primate cousins, chimpanzees, but researchers have found a 30% difference in Y chromosome genetic material between chimp and human dudes. This surprising finding suggests that Y chromosomes hold more mysteries for geneticists. Who knows\u2014they might even hold the key to dads\u2019 groan-worthy sense of humor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/product\/monkey-bar-tool-set?source=blog_uk_053017\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Monkey Bar Tool Set<\/a> | $129.99<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your dad may have given you a lot of things: a love of Bond movies, his old jazz LPs,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":56820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[92,813],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56818"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56818"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56958,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56818\/revisions\/56958"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}