{"id":99718,"date":"2019-12-13T17:22:41","date_gmt":"2019-12-14T01:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/humans-are-genetically-hardwired-to-only-live-for-38-years"},"modified":"2019-12-13T17:22:41","modified_gmt":"2019-12-14T01:22:41","slug":"humans-are-genetically-hardwired-to-only-live-for-38-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/humans-are-genetically-hardwired-to-only-live-for-38-years","title":{"rendered":"Humans are genetically hardwired to only live for 38 YEARS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><video width=\"636\" height=\"358\" controls><source src=\"https:\/\/videos.dailymail.co.uk\/video\/mol\/2018\/04\/23\/8845146181299254738\/1024x576_MP4_8845146181299254738.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\"><\/video><\/p>\n<p>Humans have a maximum natural lifespan of only 38 years, according to researchers, who have discovered a way to estimate how long a species lives based on its DNA.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists at Australia\u2019s national science agency have developed a genetic \u2018clock\u2019 computer model that they claim can accurately estimate how long different vertebrates are likely to survive \u2014 including both living and extinct species.<\/p>\n<p>Using the human genome, the researchers found that the maximum natural lifespan of humans is 38 years, which matches anthropological estimates of lifespan in early modern humans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humans have a maximum natural lifespan of only 38 years, according to researchers, who have discovered a way to estimate how long a species lives based on its DNA. Scientists at Australia\u2019s national science agency have developed a genetic \u2018clock\u2019 computer model that they claim can accurately estimate how long different vertebrates are likely to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":518,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99718","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\/518"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}