{"id":137853,"date":"2026-08-14T15:31:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T15:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/08\/14\/life-on-earth-may-have-begun-twice-a-science-advances-study-found-that-bacteria-and-archaea-inherited-one-ancient-genetic-code-but-independently-evolved-the-machinery-needed-to-become-free-living-cel\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T15:31:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T15:31:19","slug":"life-on-earth-may-have-begun-twice-a-science-advances-study-found-that-bacteria-and-archaea-inherited-one-ancient-genetic-code-but-independently-evolved-the-machinery-needed-to-become-free-living-cel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/08\/14\/life-on-earth-may-have-begun-twice-a-science-advances-study-found-that-bacteria-and-archaea-inherited-one-ancient-genetic-code-but-independently-evolved-the-machinery-needed-to-become-free-living-cel\/","title":{"rendered":"Life on Earth may have begun twice. A Science Advances study found that bacteria and archaea inherited one ancient genetic code but independently evolved the machinery needed to become free-living cells \u2014 leading the researchers to describe it as \u201cone &#8211; Space Daily"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiiwFBVV95cUxOOWljM0Yyczdrejk2NHFTRnpUSng3Q0VmaG42bnJsR3ZiQXdYNFQyQ1Ztck1hQVlueDBiRVk0a1dZYllPTWg0WGFYcHRPRWRUazVJeTA2cHA5aHVGczdXcldFSDVuMjdQZkNFODluNkJ3aTJuRVhkaWw5ZTJ4Ui1QMkQ3MzR5OUcxN0xR?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Life on Earth may have begun twice. A Science Advances study found that bacteria and archaea inherited one ancient genetic code but independently evolved the machinery needed to become free-living cells \u2014 leading the researchers to describe it as \u201cone<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">Space Daily<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life on Earth may have begun twice. A Science Advances study found that bacteria and archaea inherited one ancient genetic code but independently evolved the&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/08\/14\/life-on-earth-may-have-begun-twice-a-science-advances-study-found-that-bacteria-and-archaea-inherited-one-ancient-genetic-code-but-independently-evolved-the-machinery-needed-to-become-free-living-cel\/\" class=\"read-more\">[more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}