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New findings raise questions about when (and where) life began

Summary by Big Think
In a seminal paper published last year in Nature Ecology and Evolution, Edward Moody and co-authors describe the deep-time genetic analysis that led them to push back the estimated age of the “Last Common Universal Ancestor” (LUCA) of all terrestrial life to sometime between 4.09 and 4.33 billion years old — several hundred million years older than previous estimates based on the fossil record alone. If the finding holds up, it would corroborate…
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