{"id":501467,"date":"2018-07-25T12:05:34","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T16:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=febebd6a2b7405fe16cc11072c102b61"},"modified":"2018-07-25T12:05:34","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T16:05:34","slug":"a-century-old-model-for-lifes-origin-gets-significant-substantiation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=501467","title":{"rendered":"A century-old model for life&#8217;s origin gets significant substantiation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1924, Russian biochemist Alexander Oparin claimed that life on Earth developed through gradual chemical changes of organic molecules, in the &#8220;primordial soup&#8221; which likely existed on Earth four billion years ago. In his view, the complex combination of lifeless molecules, joining forces within small oily droplets, could assume life faculties\u2014self-replication, selection and evolution. These ideas were received with considerable doubt, still pertaining today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1924, Russian biochemist Alexander Oparin claimed that life on Earth developed through gradual chemical changes of organic molecules, in the &#8220;primordial soup&#8221; which likely existed on Earth four billion years ago. In his view, the complex combination of lifeless molecules, joining forces within small oily droplets, could assume life faculties&mdash;self-replication, selection and evolution. These ideas were received with considerable doubt, still pertaining today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-501467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=501467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":501468,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501467\/revisions\/501468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=501467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=501467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=501467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}