Meet Luca, the Ancestor of All Living Things
A single-cell, bacterium-like organism clinging to volcanic sea vents may have been the forebear of every animal, plant and microbe on earth. [Source]
Publication Date:Origin: nytimes.com
Category: Genetics and Heredity
Topics: earth, microbe, plant, animal, every, forebear, vents, volcanic, clinging, organism, bacterium-like, single-cell, Things, Living, Ancestor
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/26/science/last-universal-ancestor.html?partner=rss&emc=rss