Let me guess, it went out for cigarettes one night.
All Life On Earth Has One Single Ancestor. It Vanished Without a Trace.
Submitted 2 months ago by cm0002@literature.cafe to science@mander.xyz
Comments
Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months 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…
Akido37@lemmy.world 2 months ago
snoons@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
ancestor was prolly just a stick of rna stuck in the cracks of sea vent
artifex@piefed.social 2 months ago
isn’t all the rest of the life that’s around literally ‘the trace’ ?
thenextguy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If the link is to popular mechanics, it’s clickbait.
themeatbridge@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I used to love getting that magazine in the mail.
porcoesphino@mander.xyz 2 months ago
But also, why would we assume it wouldn’t be outcompeted? Most common ancestors are dead / changed somewhat aren’t they?
TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca 2 months ago
Yes. 99.9% of the species to ever live, are gone