{"id":242275,"date":"2026-08-05T17:11:53","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T22:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/only-one-conclusion-radical-study-suggests-life-on-earth-arose-twice"},"modified":"2026-08-05T17:11:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T22:11:53","slug":"only-one-conclusion-radical-study-suggests-life-on-earth-arose-twice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/only-one-conclusion-radical-study-suggests-life-on-earth-arose-twice","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Only One Conclusion\u2019: Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/only-one-conclusion-radical-study-suggests-life-on-earth-arose-twice2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The fact that you, or I, or any living creature, is here at all is a series of astonishing strokes of luck stretching back <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/gobsmacking-study-finds-life-on-earth-emerged-4-2-billion-years-ago\">more than 4 billion years<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One of the biggest hurdles was the very first one: How did life emerge from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/one-of-lifes-most-important-ingredients-could-have-formed-in-the-hearts-of-comets\">primordial soup<\/a> of stuff that very much wasn\u2019t alive?<\/p>\n<p>A radical new study, published in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1126\/sciadv.aef3128\">Science Advances<\/a><\/em>, suggests that this unlikely threshold may actually have been crossed not once, but <em>twice<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fact that you, or I, or any living creature, is here at all is a series of astonishing strokes of luck stretching back more than 4 billion years. One of the biggest hurdles was the very first one: How did life emerge from a primordial soup of stuff that very much wasn\u2019t alive? A [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242275","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}