All Life On Earth Has One Single Ancestor. It Vanished Without a Trace.

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• artifex@piefed.social ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  isn’t all the rest of the life that’s around literally ‘the trace’ ?

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  • thenextguy@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If the link is to popular mechanics, it’s clickbait.

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    • themeatbridge@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I used to love getting that magazine in the mail.

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  • porcoesphino@mander.xyz ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    But also, why would we assume it wouldn’t be outcompeted? Most common ancestors are dead / changed somewhat aren’t they?

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    • TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yes. 99.9% of the species to ever live, are gone

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• Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Tldr: most likely, microbiology was first living thing on earth and as they have no bones they “leave” without trace (fossils). That there really is a common ancestor is not at all proven based on the linked article…

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• dariusj18@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Let me guess, it went out for cigarettes one night.

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  • Tronn4@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Milk

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• Akido37@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Image

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• snoons@lemmy.ca ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  ancestor was prolly just a stick of rna stuck in the cracks of sea vent

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