Re:Mathematical Simplicity May Drive Evolution's Speed
by gnulinux on Friday November 30, 2018 @03:07PM
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Yes we definitely do (not counting virus) because all living things share ~5/10% of their genetic material (like you share 10% of your genes with some bacteria) [1] which is very unlikely if it were purely random. This is of course one evidence, there are more evidence towards this. Read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_life_(biology)
BTW this organism is called LUCA. Read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_universal_common_ancestor
[1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3338800/