{"id":97727,"date":"2019-10-22T23:43:28","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T06:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/humans-may-be-the-only-intelligent-life-in-the-universe-if-evolution-has-anything-to-say"},"modified":"2019-10-22T23:43:28","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T06:43:28","slug":"humans-may-be-the-only-intelligent-life-in-the-universe-if-evolution-has-anything-to-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/humans-may-be-the-only-intelligent-life-in-the-universe-if-evolution-has-anything-to-say","title":{"rendered":"Humans May Be the Only Intelligent Life in the Universe, If Evolution Has Anything to Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/humans-may-be-the-only-intelligent-life-in-the-universe-if-evolution-has-anything-to-say.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Could intelligence simply be unlikely to evolve? Unfortunately, we can\u2019t study extraterrestrial life to answer this question. But we can study some 4.5 billion years of Earth\u2019s history, looking at where evolution repeats itself, or doesn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>Related: from big bang to present: snapshots of our universe through time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could intelligence simply be unlikely to evolve? Unfortunately, we can\u2019t study extraterrestrial life to answer this question. But we can study some 4.5 billion years of Earth\u2019s history, looking at where evolution repeats itself, or doesn\u2019t. Related: from big bang to present: snapshots of our universe through time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97727","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}