{"id":911730,"date":"2026-06-10T14:12:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T19:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/10\/sex-jumpstarted-earths-animal-biodiversity\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T14:12:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T19:12:00","slug":"sex-jumpstarted-earths-animal-biodiversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/10\/sex-jumpstarted-earths-animal-biodiversity\/","title":{"rendered":"Sex jumpstarted Earth\u2019s animal biodiversity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature Many species didn\u2019t have much sex for millions of years. They didn\u2019t need it.<br \/>\nThe post Sex jumpstarted Earth\u2019s animal biodiversity appeared first on Popular Science&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/environment\/sex-animal-biodiversity-evolution\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Andrew Paul<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature Many species didn\u2019t have much sex for millions of years. They didn\u2019t need it. The post Sex jumpstarted Earth\u2019s animal biodiversity appeared first on Popular Science&#8230;Read MoreAndrew Paul<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":911731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22154,100732,536],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-911730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-earths","category-jumpstarted","category-science-nature"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=911730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/911731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}