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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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