Insight into one of life’s earliest ancestors revealed in new study

Insight into one of life’s earliest ancestors revealed in new study

An international team of researchers led by the University of Bristol has shed light on Earth’s earliest ecosystem, showing that within a few hundred million years of planetary formation, life on Earth was already flourishing. Everything alive today derives from a single common ancestor known affectionately as LUCA (Last Universal Common Ancestor). LUCA is the … Read more