{"id":809,"date":"2026-10-23T06:21:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T06:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/10\/23\/how-did-life-arise-three-turning-points-in-early-evolution-the-new-york-times\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T06:21:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T06:21:31","slug":"how-did-life-arise-three-turning-points-in-early-evolution-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/10\/23\/how-did-life-arise-three-turning-points-in-early-evolution-the-new-york-times\/","title":{"rendered":"How Did Life Arise? Three Turning Points in Early Evolution &#8211; The New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cThat is the absolute wackiest interval of Earth history that anyone\u2019s aware of,\u201d said Nick Butterfield, a paleobiologist at Cambridge. \u201cYou go in the one end, and it\u2019s this old, dreary, boring microbial world, and you come out the other end after these two massive glaciations, and all of a sudden, there\u2019s animals on the scene, and all the microbes have changed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The changes were so striking that in 2006, scientists named a new geological period to encompass them: the Ediacaran. It began around 635 million years ago, with the thawing of \u201cSnowball Earth,\u201d and ended roughly 540 million years ago with the start of the Cambrian Era.<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/10\/19\/science\/evolution-life-earth.html?unlocked_article_code=1.KVE.hmnh.mNZL7wVyDP-f\">www.nytimes.com\/2026\/10\/19\/science\/evolution-life-earth.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThat is the absolute wackiest interval of Earth history that anyone\u2019s aware of,\u201d said Nick Butterfield, a paleobiologist at Cambridge. \u201cYou go in the one end, and it\u2019s this old, dreary, boring microbial world, and you come out the other end after these two massive glaciations, and all of a sudden, there\u2019s animals on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-evolution"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}