{"id":187916,"date":"2024-04-22T20:36:38","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T01:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/colonies-of-single-celled-creatures-could-explain-how-embryos-evolved"},"modified":"2024-04-22T20:36:38","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T01:36:38","slug":"colonies-of-single-celled-creatures-could-explain-how-embryos-evolved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/colonies-of-single-celled-creatures-could-explain-how-embryos-evolved","title":{"rendered":"Colonies of single-celled creatures could explain how embryos evolved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/colonies-of-single-celled-creatures-could-explain-how-embryos-evolved3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We know little about how embryonic development in animals evolved from single-celled ancestors, but simple organisms with a multicellular life stage offer intriguing clues.<\/p>\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/author\/claire-ainsworth\/\" class=\"\">Claire Ainsworth<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We know little about how embryonic development in animals evolved from single-celled ancestors, but simple organisms with a multicellular life stage offer intriguing clues. By Claire Ainsworth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187916","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=187916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}