{"id":91003,"date":"2019-05-20T13:42:49","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T20:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/evolutionary-biologist-mars-colonists-will-mutate-really-fast"},"modified":"2019-05-20T13:42:49","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T20:42:49","slug":"evolutionary-biologist-mars-colonists-will-mutate-really-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/evolutionary-biologist-mars-colonists-will-mutate-really-fast","title":{"rendered":"Evolutionary Biologist: Mars Colonists Will Mutate Really Fast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/evolutionary-biologist-mars-colonists-will-mutate-really-fast.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Contact with Earthlings could even be deadly for Martians \u2014 and vice versa. Mars doesn\u2019t have any microorganisms to carry disease, and so if cross contamination between Earth and Mars is controlled, Solomon explains that all infectious disease could be eliminated \u2014 meaning there should be no intimate connection between the two groups.<\/p>\n<p>But all mutation isn\u2019t bad. Every new baby on Earth is born with 60 new mutations, a number which Solomon says will jump to the thousands on Mars. By mutating, humans on Mars would gain critical, life-saving benefits to cope with the brutal planet: a different skin tone to protect from radiation, less reliance on oxygen to adapt to the thin atmosphere, denser bones to counteract calcium loss during pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p>Solomon even suggests that we could use CRISPR to more purposefully design these helpful mutations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/mars-colonists-mutation-evolution\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contact with Earthlings could even be deadly for Martians \u2014 and vice versa. Mars doesn\u2019t have any microorganisms to carry disease, and so if cross contamination between Earth and Mars is controlled, Solomon explains that all infectious disease could be eliminated \u2014 meaning there should be no intimate connection between the two groups. But all [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91003","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}