Popular Mechanics May 03, 2026 • 13:11

All Life on Earth Comes From One Single Ancestor. And It's So Much Older Than We Thought. - Yahoo

By Darren Orf

All Life on Earth Comes From One Single Ancestor. And It's So Much Older Than We Thought. - Yahoo

All life on Earth can be traced back to a Last Universal Common Ancestor, or LUCA—and it likely lived on Earth only 400 million years after its formation.

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