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All life on Earth comes from one single ancestor, now we know what it was

https://www.earth.com/news/luca-last-universal-common-ancestor-progenitor-all-life-on-earth/

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FenderStratocaster @lemmy.world - 8mon

It's OP's mom

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Jim East - 8mon

Interesting theory, but I am not Jim West.

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FenderStratocaster @lemmy.world - 8mon

Like from the 1999 Will Smith feature film Wild Wild West?

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Jim East - 8mon

Like the guy who invented durian.

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TachyonTele @lemm.ee - 8mon

Durian Durain started all of this?
True artists!

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✺roguetrick✺ - 8mon

I really don't understand the need to pin it down as one ancestor. Horizontal gene transfer would've been incredibly common(exacerbated by the viruses and low defense against them). Trying to play like there was one organism that collected all the features ignores the features just getting wholesale transplanted later.

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Gina - 8mon

Continuously adding the Evolutions pile of evidence is a good thing

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✺roguetrick✺ - 8mon

I just think it's a framing problem. In bacteria and archaea(particularly in the early periods) the genes themselves are what were impacted by natural selection and they would propegate between species based on the gene's fitness alone. "Ancestor" is a bit of a misnomer and it's very hard to ever say you've developed a timeline.

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TachyonTele @lemm.ee - 8mon

Because so far the evidence points to everything having come from one ancestor.

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xia @lemmy.sdf.org - 8mon

Makes you wonder if the first life form could live long enough to reproduce, or had to be functionally immortal.

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Fleur_ @aussie.zone - 8mon

HIS NAME IS GOD SINNERS

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Tikiporch @lemmy.world - 8mon

Did you read the article? God's name is Cellular Bill.

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Fleur_ @aussie.zone - 8mon

I only read THE BIBLE

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Tikiporch @lemmy.world - 8mon

I believe it's in the Bible too. Deuteronymy or maybe it was one of the Psalms.

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