Looking for the last universal common ancestor of all living organisms
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Looking for the last universal common ancestor of all living organisms

LUCA‚ the "last universal common ancestor" of all living organisms‚ lived 4.32–4.52 billion years ago‚ according to a study from NIOZ biologists Tara Mahendrarajah and senior author Anja Spang‚ with collaborating partners from Universities in Bristol‚ Hungary‚ and Tokyo. Their research is published in Nature Communications.