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Re:Comb jellies proven to be the sibling group to all other ... by jacquesm on Thursday May 25, 2023 @05:23AM (#36068592)
No, that's exactly what it is not. 'Sibling group' implies that there is no direct line of descent, but that at some point the tree of life forked, that Comb Jellies are in the one fork and that all the rest of the animals (including us) are in the other.
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Re:Comb jellies proven to be the sibling group to all other ... by Manozco on Thursday May 25, 2023 @06:08AM (#36068859)
Does it mean that every form of life on Earth (right now) evolved from the "Parent" of the Comb Jelly ?
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Re:Comb jellies proven to be the sibling group to all other ... by echelon on Thursday May 25, 2023 @06:17AM (#36068907)
No, just animals. Not prokaryotes, archaea, amoebozoa, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal

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Re:Comb jellies proven to be the sibling group to all other ... by jacquesm on Thursday May 25, 2023 @08:38AM (#36069989)
No, there are many forks before that one.

If this stuff interests you I would like to recommend Dawkins' 'The Ancestor's Tale', it is pretty accessible and walks you back through time step-by-step.

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Re:Comb jellies proven to be the sibling group to all other ... by tremon on Thursday May 25, 2023 @09:06AM (#36070241)
Not the parent, but some great-grandparent, yes.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_universal_common_ancestor for more info:

> The LUCA is not the first life on Earth; it may have lived among a diversity of other organisms whose descendants all died out. Rather LUCA is the most recent form from which all surviving life on Earth is descended.

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Re:Comb jellies proven to be the sibling group to all other ... by andrewstuart on Thursday May 25, 2023 @06:35AM (#36069016)
You may be taking this more seriously than my comment warrants.
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Re:Comb jellies proven to be the sibling group to all other ... by Groxx on Thursday May 25, 2023 @12:15PM (#36072643)
So it's my ultra-uncle
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