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Re:All Life on Earth Today Descended from a Single Cell. Mee... by Woodi on Friday November 22, 2024 @01:24AM (#42211586)
LUCA have 2600 genes ? How such thing can be even remotely called "first" ??
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Re:All Life on Earth Today Descended from a Single Cell. Mee... by fbarred on Friday November 22, 2024 @03:13AM (#42212029)
From the article:

“It’s not the first cell, it’s not the first microbe, it’s not the first anything, really,” said Greg Fournier, an evolutionary biologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Re:All Life on Earth Today Descended from a Single Cell. Mee... by Woodi on Friday November 22, 2024 @05:28AM (#42212633)
Article also says:

"LUCA is the furthest point in evolutionary history that we can glimpse by working backward from what’s alive today."

Which translates to: first in time, IMO

But my point was: LUCA described here is realy complicated so why it makes some new quality ? Maybe some milestone, yes.

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Re:All Life on Earth Today Descended from a Single Cell. Mee... by zktruth on Friday November 22, 2024 @01:30AM (#42211611)
Did you skip breakfast or something? Where did you get "first" from "last"?
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