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All Life On Earth Has One Single Ancestor. It Vanished Without a Trace.
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cm0002 literature.cafe cm0002@literature.cafe
Joined: 2025-11-08
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Link: https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/animals/a70570658/all-of-life-has-the-same-ancestor-scientists-are-still-figuring-out-how-old-it-is/
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dariusj18 lemmy.world dariusj18@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-01-21
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Let me guess, it went out for cigarettes one night.
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artifex piefed.social artifex@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-06-10
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isn't all the rest of the life that's around literally 'the trace' ?
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Akido37 lemmy.world Akido37@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-09-08
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Tronn4 lemmy.world Tronn4@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-01
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dariusj18 wrote:
Let me guess, it went out for cigarettes one night.

Milk
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thenextguy lemmy.world thenextguy@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-09-28
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artifex wrote:
isn't all the rest of the life that's around literally 'the trace' ?

If the link is to popular mechanics, it’s clickbait.
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snoons lemmy.ca snoons@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2023-06-16
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ancestor was prolly just a stick of rna stuck in the cracks of sea vent
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porcoesphino mander.xyz porcoesphino@mander.xyz
Joined: 2025-09-12
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artifex wrote:
isn't all the rest of the life that's around literally 'the trace' ?

But also, why would we assume it wouldn't be outcompeted? Most common ancestors are dead / changed somewhat aren't they?
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Petter1 discuss.tchncs.de Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de
Joined: 2025-07-01
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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…
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Zier fedia.io Zier@fedia.io
Joined: 2023-06-17
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Bubbling goo.
You can still find bubbling goo on Earth.
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TheJesusaurus piefed.ca TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca
Joined: 2025-10-20
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porcoesphino wrote:
But also, why would we assume it wouldn't be outcompeted? Most common ancestors are dead / changed somewhat aren't they?

Yes. 99.9% of the species to ever live, are gone
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themeatbridge lemmy.world themeatbridge@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-28
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thenextguy wrote:
If the link is to popular mechanics, it’s clickbait.

I used to love getting that magazine in the mail.
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