{"id":113889,"date":"2020-10-04T22:25:09","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T05:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/a-new-chemical-tree-of-the-origins-of-life-reveals-our-possible-molecular-evolution"},"modified":"2020-10-05T21:12:02","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T04:12:02","slug":"a-new-chemical-tree-of-the-origins-of-life-reveals-our-possible-molecular-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/a-new-chemical-tree-of-the-origins-of-life-reveals-our-possible-molecular-evolution","title":{"rendered":"A New Chemical \u2018Tree of The Origins of Life\u2019 Reveals Our Possible Molecular Evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hTPi_Wnbqp8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>One of the greatest mysteries in our Universe is right here on our own doorstep. No, closer \u2014 it\u2019s in every fibre of our being.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/oldest-traces-of-life-on-earth-may-lurk-in-canadian-rocks-1.22685#\/ref-link-2\">At least 3.7 billion years ago<\/a>, a few simple molecules worked together to create something new. Then a few more. And, somehow, these snowballing combinations eventually produced the first very basic living organisms that would evolve and branch out to become all life on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>We don\u2019t know the order it happened in; heck, we don\u2019t even know when or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/geologists-think-earth-could-have-once-been-a-sloshy-continent-free-waterworld\">where<\/a> it happened. But new research is showing us the possibilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the greatest mysteries in our Universe is right here on our own doorstep. No, closer \u2014 it\u2019s in every fibre of our being. At least 3.7 billion years ago, a few simple molecules worked together to create something new. Then a few more. And, somehow, these snowballing combinations eventually produced the first very [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19,385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-chemistry","category-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113936,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113889\/revisions\/113936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}