{"id":191286,"date":"2024-06-15T22:31:18","date_gmt":"2024-06-16T03:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/a-new-evolutionary-frontier"},"modified":"2024-06-15T22:31:18","modified_gmt":"2024-06-16T03:31:18","slug":"a-new-evolutionary-frontier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/a-new-evolutionary-frontier","title":{"rendered":"A new evolutionary frontier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-new-evolutionary-frontier.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists can\u2019t address the origins of life without having a basic understanding of evolution.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019d think that would make the origins of life a popular research topic for evolutionary biologists. But Maria Kalambokidis, Ph.D. candidate in Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, and recent recipient of the NASA Future Investigators Fellowship, may be one of only a handful across the globe investigating the topic. She thinks it might be because the origins of life, also called abiogenesis, has mostly been studied by chemists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s difficult to come into the field when you have a completely different scientific background than someone else,\u201d says Kalambokidis. \u201cThere are insights from evolution that you might miss by only taking the perspective of a chemist.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists can\u2019t address the origins of life without having a basic understanding of evolution. You\u2019d think that would make the origins of life a popular research topic for evolutionary biologists. But Maria Kalambokidis, Ph.D. candidate in Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, and recent recipient of the NASA Future Investigators Fellowship, may be one of only a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191286","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=191286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}