Earth's original ancestor was LUCA, not Adam nor Eve

Here's another argument against intelligent design. An evolutionary geneticist from the Universite de Montreal, together with researchers from the French cities of Lyon and Montpellier, have published a ground-breaking study that characterises the common ancestor of all life on earth, LUCA (Last Universal Common Ancestor). Their findings, presented in a recent issue of Nature, show that the 3.8-billion-year-old organism was not the creature usually imagined...

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