Tuesday 16 July 2024

The origin of all living organisms

About 4.2 million years ago, a microbe emerged with a fairly large genome encoding, that further led through evolution to all the living organisms that we know today as well as those that are now extinct. We do not know how or from where this microbe emerged.

Go to the link below for a fascinating account of the detective work related to the origins of living organisms:

https://www.science.org/content/article/our-last-common-ancestor-lived-4-2-billion-years-ago-perhaps-hundreds-millions-years

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