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Ancestor of all living things was quite complex

The relative of all living things, dubbed the Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA), was a sophisticated organism with a complex structure recognizable as a cell, according to a new paper in the journal Biology Direct. Prior theories [...]

Posted On : Oct, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

Fossils radically alter ideas about the look of man's earlie...

Analysis of a near-complete skeleton of a human ancestor found in Ethiopia changes scientists' thinking about the appearance and behavior of our distant forebears. A treasure trove of 4.4-million-year-old fossils from the Ethiopian desert [...]

Posted On : Oct, 02 2009 | Comments : 0

Sea Anemone Genome Provides New View Of Our Multi-celled Anc...

The first analysis of the genome of the sea anemone shows it to be nearly as complex as the human genome, providing major insights into the common ancestor of not only humans and sea anemones, but of nearly all multi-celled animals.A view i [...]