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LUCA have 2600 genes ? How such thing can be even remotely called "first" ??
by Woodi 2y ago
LUCA have 2600 genes ? How such thing can be even remotely called "first" ??
- zktruth 2y agoDid you skip breakfast or something? Where did you get "first" from "last"?
- fbarred 2y agoFrom the article: “It’s not the first cell, it’s not the first microbe, it’s not the first anything, really,” said Greg Fournier, an evolutionary biologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- Woodi 2y agoArticle also says: "LUCA is the furthest point in evolutionary history that we can glimpse by working backward from what’s alive today." Which translates to: first in time, IMO But my point was: LUCA described here is realy complicated so why it makes some new quality ? Maybe some milestone, yes.