Last universal common ancestor (LUCA)

Interesting new PNAS paper casts doubt on universal common ancestry

Universal common ancestry was a religion, really. Create a religion, birth a heretic…

Evolution Intelligent Design Origin Of Life

At BiorXiv: LUCA (Last Universal Common Ancestor) more complex than supposed

Note that last sentence: “Our results depict LUCA as likely to be a far more complex cell than has previously been proposed, challenging the evolutionary model of increased complexity through time in prokaryotes. Given current estimates for the emergence of LUCA we suggest that early life very rapidly evolved considerable cellular complexity.” Just an accident. Nothing to see here.

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Silver Asiatic JVL I just couldn’t figure out what BobRyan was actually saying. If the fetus was part of the mother then... – Michael Egnor muses on some shaky...
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asauber "Aren’t you claiming to have proven a negative?" JVL, Not at all. Is a snake capable of building a nicely-stained... – Denton’s prior fitness argument: Everything seems...
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asauber "Why couldn’t it have been the other way around? We’re here, well suited to this collection of environments because evolution... – Denton’s prior fitness argument: Everything seems...
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asauber "i wonder which other source of DNA might have been involved with the pregnancy?" Still a unique human baby, no... – Michael Egnor muses on some shaky...
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JVL BobRyan: If a fetus, which is Latin for baby, is simply part of the mother to be, why is there... – Michael Egnor muses on some shaky...