Mar 3, 2021
7 min read
LUCA May Be Your Ultimate Ancestor
Working backwards to the origin of life…
Darwin and LUCA are sitting in a tree…
Deep sea volcano.
LUCA was forged in this hell.
Ancestor to all.
Charles Darwin’s most spectacularly prescient hypotheses was not about evolution. It was about the origin of life on Earth. In his most famous work about natural selection, On the Origin of Species, published in 1859, Darwin stated:
