Studying the genome of living beings, scientists estimate that the "Last Universal Common Ancestor" (LUCA) lived some 4.2 billion years ago. That is, surprisingly life would have started only a few hundred million years after Earth itself formed some 4.5 billion years ago.
related: #life #Earth
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