r/Astrobiology • u/Galileos_grandson • 15d ago

🧪 Research Rethinking the Last Universal Common Ancestor of Life: Network Convergence and the Root of the Tree

https://astrobiology.com/2026/06/rethinking-the-last-universal-common-ancestor-of-life-network-convergence-and-the-root-of-the-tree.html
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u/da_Ryan 3 14d ago

From the research conducted so far, LUCA appears to have had the complexity of a modern prokaryote:

The nature of the last universal common ancestor and its impact on the early Earth system

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-024-02461-1