{"id":243030,"date":"2026-08-21T21:04:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T02:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/early-evolution-of-life-publication-in-science-advances"},"modified":"2026-08-21T21:04:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T02:04:37","slug":"early-evolution-of-life-publication-in-science-advances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/early-evolution-of-life-publication-in-science-advances","title":{"rendered":"Early Evolution of Life: Publication in Science Advances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/early-evolution-of-life-publication-in-science-advances2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Because an organism isn\u2019t truly \u201calive\u201d in the biological sense until it can survive as an autonomous, free-living cell, the researchers reached a radical conclusion.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>How and where did the first forms of life arise? These are the main questions driving research at the Institute of Molecular Evolution at Heinrich Heine University D\u00fcsseldorf (HHU). In a new publication in <i>Science Advances<\/i>, an international team led by D\u00fcsseldorf biologists uncovers pioneering insights into the network of chemical reactions that the very first cells used to make the building blocks of life and which sources of energy they used to drive those reactions. They retraced the origin of enzymes during life\u2019s earliest divergence into bacteria and archaea, and found evidence for two independent origins of life for free-living cells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because an organism isn\u2019t truly \u201calive\u201d in the biological sense until it can survive as an autonomous, free-living cell, the researchers reached a radical conclusion. How and where did the first forms of life arise? These are the main questions driving research at the Institute of Molecular Evolution at Heinrich Heine University D\u00fcsseldorf (HHU). In [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19,6,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-chemistry","category-robotics-ai","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243030","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\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}