All Life on Earth Comes From One Single Ancestor. And It's So Much Older Than We Thought.

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• lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  To be clear: the LUCA is the last universal common ancestor. There was earlier life, before the LUCA; it’s just that all its surviving descendants are also LUCA descendants.

  This is important to know while reading the text, because it explains why the LUCA was so surprisingly complex.

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