Diversity is the ultimate key to beauty – just look around you and you’ll see. Yet, flowers, animals, landscapes and humans ...

Eventually you'll find the common ancestor for all vertebrates, then all animals and then all eukaryotes. And eventually, for all of life as we know it. That ancestor is called LUCA: the last ...

Our LUCA is a part of your family, albeit a little distant. Our LUCA is the Last Universal Common Ancestor! It represents the point from which all of Earth's biological diversity stems.

These results provided strong evidence that the last universal common ancestor (LUCA) of all cellular life really existed, although we still know little about what this ancestor was like and how ...

Our readers dig into deep history to answer this one, moving from our last universal common ancestor to the spread of Homo sapiens around the world ...

We call it the Last Universal Common Ancestor, or LUCA. So, just as the universe had its origin at the Big Bang, all life on this planet had its origin in that one moment. Now, we don't know what ...