Researchers found LUCA, our earliest common ancestor, lived 4.2 billion years ago. It had a complex biology, affecting its ...

Recent research led by the University of Bristol has made waves by pushing back the timeline of Earth’s earliest life form by ...

all the way back to the last universal common ancestor, or LUCA, a hypothetical population of organisms that lived roughly 4 ...

LUCA, Earth’s first common ancestor, lived 4.2 billion years ago. Scientists now reveal it was complex, resilient, and may ...

These results provided strong evidence that the last universal common ancestor (LUCA) of all cellular life really existed, although we still know little about what this ancestor was like and how ...

We call it the Last Universal Common Ancestor, or LUCA. So, just as the universe had its origin at the Big Bang, all life on this planet had its origin in that one moment. Now, we don't know what ...

(A) Archaezoan hypothesis. (B) Symbiotic hypothesis. The shapes within the eukaryotic cell denote the nucleus, the endomembrane system, and the cytoskeleton. The irregular gray shape denotes a ...

Meet some of the people featured in the March 2014 issue of The Scientist. A series of rodent experiments showed that even with abundant food and water, personal space is essential to prevent societal ...

A genetic reconstruction shows the Last Universal Common Ancestor, or LUCA, was a simple organism that lived off the gases spewing out of the Earth's crust This advertisement has not loaded yet ...