{"id":230672,"date":"2026-02-06T05:22:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T11:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/scientists-found-a-way-to-study-life-before-its-first-known-ancestor"},"modified":"2026-02-06T05:22:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T11:22:00","slug":"scientists-found-a-way-to-study-life-before-its-first-known-ancestor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/scientists-found-a-way-to-study-life-before-its-first-known-ancestor","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Found a Way to Study Life Before Its First Known Ancestor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-found-a-way-to-study-life-before-its-first-known-ancestor.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ancient duplicated genes are giving scientists their first real clues about what life was like before all life on Earth shared a common ancestor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ancient duplicated genes are giving scientists their first real clues about what life was like before all life on Earth shared a common ancestor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230672","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}