{"id":14844,"date":"2015-06-17T15:00:44","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T22:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=14844"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:56:15","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:56:15","slug":"the-math-that-shows-humans-could-live-ten-times-longer-brian-merchant-motherboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/the-math-that-shows-humans-could-live-ten-times-longer-brian-merchant-motherboard","title":{"rendered":"The Math That Shows Humans Could Live Ten Times Longer \u2014 Brian Merchant | Motherboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen resources are scarce, a species as a whole has a better shot at surviving if its populations are organizing themselves to promote long term survival with shorter individual lifespans. They are evolving to combat overpopulation and overconsumption, basically\u2026humans could be living a lot longer than they do now\u2014we have, after all, inherited a lifespan from times when our forebears were eking out an existence as scrappy hunter gatherers\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/read\/the-math-that-shows-humans-could-live-ten-times-longer\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhen resources are scarce, a species as a whole has a better shot at surviving if its populations are organizing themselves to promote long term survival with shorter individual lifespans. They are evolving to combat overpopulation and overconsumption, basically\u2026humans could be living a lot longer than they do now\u2014we have, after all, inherited a lifespan [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1495,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14844","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14844"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64665,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14844\/revisions\/64665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}