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Scientists Say All Life Came From One Ancient Ancestor

Scientists Say All Life Came From One

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Scientists Say All Life Came From One Ancient Ancestor

For centuries, people have been asking the question about the origin of life on Earth. Today, the scientific evidence is overwhelming that all living things, no matter how simple or complex, from the smallest bacteria and the biggest whales to the human being, share a single origin, a very remote one. It is nicknamed “Last Universal Common Ancestor” or LUCA and is thought to have existed billions of years ago, perhaps as long ago as before the origin of any life on Earth, as early as the Cambrian period. New finds are changing ideas about the emergence of life and the rapid onset of it on the early earth.
 

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