{"id":198499,"date":"2024-10-29T10:33:15","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T15:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/can-the-hard-steps-in-the-evolutionary-history-of-human-intelligence-be-recast-with-geological-thresholds"},"modified":"2024-10-29T10:33:15","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T15:33:15","slug":"can-the-hard-steps-in-the-evolutionary-history-of-human-intelligence-be-recast-with-geological-thresholds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/can-the-hard-steps-in-the-evolutionary-history-of-human-intelligence-be-recast-with-geological-thresholds","title":{"rendered":"Can the \u2018hard steps\u2019 in the evolutionary history of human intelligence be recast with geological thresholds?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/can-the-hard-steps-in-the-evolutionary-history-of-human-intelligence-be-recast-with-geological-thresholds3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What took so long for humans to appear on Earth? The Earth is 4.6 billion years old, and life began about 4 billion years ago, yet humans\u2014the only intelligent, technological species we know of in the universe\u2014have existed only for the last 200,000 years. Why didn\u2019t we come sooner? What factor(s) delayed our appearance? And what can life\u2019s timeline here say about the possibility of other technologically advanced lifeforms in the universe?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What took so long for humans to appear on Earth? The Earth is 4.6 billion years old, and life began about 4 billion years ago, yet humans\u2014the only intelligent, technological species we know of in the universe\u2014have existed only for the last 200,000 years. Why didn\u2019t we come sooner? What factor(s) delayed our appearance? And [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198499","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=198499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}