Cells divide and make new cells, is all life on Earth rooted in one super ancestor cell? Or are there parallel paths to cell creation?
Cells divide and make new cells, is all life on Earth rooted in one super ancestor cell? Or are there parallel paths to cell creation?
Yes, most likely, all organisms on earth originate from the Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA).
☝️🤓I mean, it isn’t “most likely”.
Unless there are multiple independent sources of life then, by definition, the last universal common ancestor is the thing that we all originated from