All Life on Earth Comes From One Single Ancestor. And It's So Much Older Than We Thought.
Life on Earth had to begin somewhere, and scientists think that “somewhere” is LUCA—or the Last Universal Common Ancestor.
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All people with blue eyes have a common ancestor
New research shows that all blue-eyed people share a common ancestor. This person lived more than 6,000 years ago and carried a genetic mutation that has now spread across the world. The exact ...
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Convergent evolution explained with 13 examples
A good example is the modern elephant and the extinct woolly mammoth. These creatures evolved from a common ancestor, but experienced different environments. Exposed to a cold climate, mammoths ...
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The Common Genetic Code:
The Human Genome Project is revealing many dramatic examples of how genes have been ... back to a single common ancestor more than 3.5 billion years ago. And the evolutionary view of a single ...
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Scientists Discovered That Evolution Itself Is Evolving
One of the most famous examples of evolution is Darwin’s finches. Scientists believe the 17 species of finches on the Galapagos Islands can be traced back to one common ancestor: the dull ...
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Tetrapod Limbs:
The pentadactyl limbs that tetrapods far and wide all have are examples of homologous structures. The term refers to similarities among species that are inherited from common ancestors.