{"id":25295,"date":"2016-05-03T06:47:01","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T13:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/do-we-need-sex-to-reproduce"},"modified":"2017-04-24T21:02:48","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T04:02:48","slug":"do-we-need-sex-to-reproduce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/do-we-need-sex-to-reproduce","title":{"rendered":"Do we need sex to reproduce?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/do-we-need-sex-to-reproduce.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The article states that European royal houses are all closely related. Well in humanities history it\u2019s thought that over 80% of all marriages were between second cousins or closer. While until the industrial revolution the nobility would have been the only demographic who could travel further than as far as you can walk from your home and back in a day. So until the industrial revolution the nobility were probably the most genetically diverse demographic.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\u2018Virgin births\u2019 happen in nature more than we thought, says Frank Swain, so what\u2019s stopping human beings from doing the same?<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/story\/20140530-do-we-need-sex-to-reproduce?ocid=fbfut\">http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/story\/20140530-do-we-need-sex-to-reproduce?ocid=fbfut<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The article states that European royal houses are all closely related. Well in humanities history it\u2019s thought that over 80% of all marriages were between second cousins or closer. While until the industrial revolution the nobility would have been the only demographic who could travel further than as far as you can walk from your [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":363,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412,15,1901],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics","category-habitats","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25295","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\/363"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25295"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50629,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25295\/revisions\/50629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}