{"id":24542,"date":"2012-07-28T23:27:58","date_gmt":"2012-07-28T23:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=24542"},"modified":"2012-07-28T23:35:38","modified_gmt":"2012-07-28T23:35:38","slug":"instituto-cervantes-holds-forum-on-genetic-diversity-in-the-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=24542","title":{"rendered":"Instituto Cervantes holds forum on genetic diversity in the Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gmanetwork.com\/news\/story\/266506\/cbb\/instituto-cervantes-holds-forum-on-genetic-diversity-in-the-philippines\" target=\"_blank\">Instituto Cervantes holds forum on genetic diversity in the Philippines<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gmanetwork.com\/news\" target=\"_blank\">GMA News Online<\/a><br \/>\nQuezon City, Philippines<br \/>\n2012-07-24<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gmanetwork.com\/news\/story\/266506\/cbb\/instituto-cervantes-holds-forum-on-genetic-diversity-in-the-philippines\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www8.gmanews.tv\/webpics\/v3\/2012\/07\/Coloquio.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, July 24, Instituto Cervantes presents \u201cTodos somos mestizos: A Topogenetic Atlas of the Philippines,\u201d a forum on the genetic make-up of Filipinos all over the archipelago. The talk will be led by Filipino anthropologist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dsa-ateneo.net\/personnel\/fernando-zialcita-phd\" target=\"_blank\">Fernando Zialcita, Ph.D.<\/a> and Spanish Biology professor, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uam.es\/otros\/mantropo\/CVAntonio.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Antonio Gonz\u00e1lez-Mart\u00edn, Ph.D.<\/a>, who is currently in the country to conduct an ongoing project funded by the Goverment of Spain.<\/p>\n<p>The forum\u2019s title, which roughly translates to \u201dWe Are All a Mix,\u201d is a prelude to the subject matter of the genetic diversity of Filipinos originating from different parts of the country. Dr. Gonz\u00e1lez-Mart\u00edn will reveal for the very first time a rough approximation of the genetic make-up of the Filipino people. Why did he choose the Philippines? \u201cAside from the fact that the Philippines has an extremely rich demographic history, these islands are key to explain the expansion of human beings in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Austronesian_peoples\" target=\"_blank\">Austronesian<\/a> region,\u201d says Gonz\u00e1lez-Mart\u00edn&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gmanetwork.com\/news\/story\/266506\/cbb\/instituto-cervantes-holds-forum-on-genetic-diversity-in-the-philippines\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instituto Cervantes holds forum on genetic diversity in the Philippines GMA News Online Quezon City, Philippines 2012-07-24 On Tuesday, July 24, Instituto Cervantes presents \u201cTodos somos mestizos: A Topogenetic Atlas of the Philippines,\u201d a forum on the genetic make-up of Filipinos all over the archipelago. The talk will be led by Filipino anthropologist Fernando Zialcita, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,8],"tags":[1655,11423,11424,1799],"class_list":["post-24542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-media-archive","tag-antonio-gonzalez-martin","tag-fernando-zialcita","tag-gma-news-online","tag-philippines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}