{"id":156004,"date":"2023-01-22T23:24:25","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T05:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/a-billion-years-before-sex-ancient-cells-were-equipped-for-it"},"modified":"2023-01-22T23:24:25","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T05:24:25","slug":"a-billion-years-before-sex-ancient-cells-were-equipped-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/a-billion-years-before-sex-ancient-cells-were-equipped-for-it","title":{"rendered":"A Billion Years Before Sex, Ancient Cells Were Equipped for It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-billion-years-before-sex-ancient-cells-were-equipped-for-it2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Molecular detective work is zeroing in on the origins of sexual reproduction. The protein tools for cell mergers seem to have long predated sex \u2014 so what were they doing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Molecular detective work is zeroing in on the origins of sexual reproduction. The protein tools for cell mergers seem to have long predated sex \u2014 so what were they doing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1901],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156004","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}