{"id":166155,"date":"2023-06-21T15:20:08","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T20:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/did-life-evolve-more-than-once-researchers-are-closing-in-on-an-answer"},"modified":"2023-06-21T15:20:08","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T20:20:08","slug":"did-life-evolve-more-than-once-researchers-are-closing-in-on-an-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/did-life-evolve-more-than-once-researchers-are-closing-in-on-an-answer","title":{"rendered":"Did Life Evolve More Than Once? Researchers Are Closing In on an Answer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/did-life-evolve-more-than-once-researchers-are-closing-in-on-an-answer2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Eventually, these molecules probably evolved a lipid (fatty) boundary separating the internal environment of the organism from the exterior, forming protocells. Protocells could concentrate and organize better the molecules needed in biochemical reactions, providing a contained and efficient metabolism.<\/p>\n<p><b>Life on Repeat?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Abiogenesis could have happened more than once. Earth could have birthed self-replicating molecules several times, and maybe early life for thousands or millions of years just consisted of a bunch of different self-replicating RNA molecules, with independent origins, competing for the same building blocks. Alas, due to the ancient and microscopic nature of this process, we may never know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eventually, these molecules probably evolved a lipid (fatty) boundary separating the internal environment of the organism from the exterior, forming protocells. Protocells could concentrate and organize better the molecules needed in biochemical reactions, providing a contained and efficient metabolism. Life on Repeat? Abiogenesis could have happened more than once. Earth could have birthed self-replicating molecules [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":691,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166155","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\/691"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}