17 Dec 2008
Earth's original ancestor was LUCA, not Adam nor Eve

Fascinating stuff ...

An evolutionary geneticist from the University of Montreal, together with researchers from the French cities of Lyon and Montpellier, have published a ground-breaking study that characterizes the common ancestor of all life on earth, LUCA (last universal common ancestor). Their findings, presented in a recent issue of Nature, show that the 3.8-billion-year-old organism was not the creature usually imagined.

(link) [EurekAlert!]

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