{"id":198874,"date":"2024-11-07T07:24:27","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T13:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/the-high-cost-of-complexity-new-study-explores-energy-needs-of-multicellular-life"},"modified":"2024-11-07T07:24:27","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T13:24:27","slug":"the-high-cost-of-complexity-new-study-explores-energy-needs-of-multicellular-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/the-high-cost-of-complexity-new-study-explores-energy-needs-of-multicellular-life","title":{"rendered":"The high cost of complexity: New study explores energy needs of multicellular life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-high-cost-of-complexity-new-study-explores-energy-needs-of-multicellular-life.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Between 1.8 billion and 800 million years ago, earthly life was in the doldrums. During this period, called the \u201cboring billion,\u201d the complexity of life remained minimal, dominated by single-celled organisms with only sporadic ventures into multicellular forms. This era set the stage for the later emergence of complex multicellular life, marking a key chapter in evolutionary history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between 1.8 billion and 800 million years ago, earthly life was in the doldrums. During this period, called the \u201cboring billion,\u201d the complexity of life remained minimal, dominated by single-celled organisms with only sporadic ventures into multicellular forms. This era set the stage for the later emergence of complex multicellular life, marking a key chapter [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198874","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}