Scientists have long believed they understood how life’s genetic code evolved, but new research upends that assumption. By ...

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.

Yerba mate, along with tea and coffee, is one of the world's most popular caffeinated beverages. Widely consumed in South ...

Through genome analysis, the scientists uncovered surprising insights into yerba mate’s evolutionary history – particularly ...

Analysis of the yerba mate plant genome reveals that caffeine was key for the evolution of its metabolic complexity and ...

The last universal common ancestor (LUCA) is the name given to the most recent common ancestor of all existing life on Earth. It is the population of cells from roughly four billion years ago from ...