Researchers found LUCA, our earliest common ancestor, lived 4.2 billion years ago. It had a complex biology, affecting its ...

All life on Earth can be traced back to a Last Universal Common Ancestor, or LUCA. A new study suggests that this organism likely lived on Earth only 400 million years after its formation.

This thread of genetic similarity connects us and the roughly 10 million other species in the modern world to the entire history of life, back to a single common ... ancestor of life and all ...

LUCA—the Last Universal Common Ancestor—may have lived 4.2 billion ... and chemical-rich waters fueled life’s first spark. Though long gone, LUCA’s biological toolkit survives in every ...

New research shows that all blue-eyed people share a common ancestor. This person lived more than 6,000 years ago and carried a genetic mutation that has now spread across the world. The exact ...