All Life on Earth Comes From One Single Ancestor. And It's So Much Older Than We Thought.
Scientists have pushed back LUCA’s origin by hundreds of millions of years.
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DNA Suggests Modern Humans Emerged From Several Groups in Africa, Not One
Scientists used computer modeling and the genomes of several hundred living people to examine our prehistoric origins