{"id":190282,"date":"2024-05-28T16:26:34","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T21:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/scientists-uncover-a-multibillion-year-epic-written-into-the-chemistry-of-life"},"modified":"2024-05-28T16:26:34","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T21:26:34","slug":"scientists-uncover-a-multibillion-year-epic-written-into-the-chemistry-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/scientists-uncover-a-multibillion-year-epic-written-into-the-chemistry-of-life","title":{"rendered":"Scientists uncover a multibillion-year epic written into the chemistry of life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-uncover-a-multibillion-year-epic-written-into-the-chemistry-of-life3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The origin of life on Earth has long been a mystery that has eluded scientists. A key question is how much of the history of life on Earth is lost to time. It is quite common for a single species to \u201cphase out\u201d using a biochemical reaction, and if this happens across enough species, such reactions could effectively be \u201cforgotten\u201d by life on Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The origin of life on Earth has long been a mystery that has eluded scientists. A key question is how much of the history of life on Earth is lost to time. It is quite common for a single species to \u201cphase out\u201d using a biochemical reaction, and if this happens across enough species, such [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190282","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=190282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}