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cm0002@literature.cafe to Science@mander.xyz · 5 days ago

All Life On Earth Has One Single Ancestor. It Vanished Without a Trace.

www.popularmechanics.com

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All Life On Earth Has One Single Ancestor. It Vanished Without a Trace.

www.popularmechanics.com

cm0002@literature.cafe to Science@mander.xyz · 5 days ago
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Scientists are using molecular clocks and genomic data to trace the origins of LUCA and LECA—life’s earliest common ancestors.
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    isn’t all the rest of the life that’s around literally ‘the trace’ ?

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      If the link is to popular mechanics, it’s clickbait.

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        I used to love getting that magazine in the mail.

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      But also, why would we assume it wouldn’t be outcompeted? Most common ancestors are dead / changed somewhat aren’t they?

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        Yes. 99.9% of the species to ever live, are gone

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