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Does it mean that every form of life on Earth (right now) evolved from the "Parent" of the Comb Jelly ?
by Manozco 3y ago
Does it mean that every form of life on Earth (right now) evolved from the "Parent" of the Comb Jelly ?
- jacquesm 3y agoNo, there are many forks before that one. If this stuff interests you I would like to recommend Dawkins' 'The Ancestor's Tale', it is pretty accessible and walks you back through time step-by-step.
- echelon 3y agoNo, just animals. Not prokaryotes, archaea, amoebozoa, etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal
- tremon 3y agoNot the parent, but some great-grandparent, yes. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_universal_common_ancestor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_universal_common_ancestor for more info: > The LUCA is not the first life on Earth; it may have lived among a diversity of other organisms whose descendants all died out. Rather LUCA is the most recent form from which all surviving life on Earth is descended.