“One Origin of the Genetic Code, but Two Origins of Life”: Scientists Reveal the Ancient Evolutionary Split That Gave Rise to All Life on Earth
An international research team has uncovered how LUCA, the last common ancestor of all life on Earth, split into the first two branches of organisms—bacteria and archaea—allowinglife to thrive innew conditions and spread to other biomes. Scientists from the Institute of Molecular Evolution at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) led the research, revealing their findings…
