Radical Anthropology on Nostr: #Luca -- last universal common ancestor, the progenitor of all known life on ...

#Luca -- last universal common ancestor, the progenitor of all known life on Earth...'born 4.2bn years ago. Back then our planet was no Eden but something of a hell on Earth: a seething mass of volcanoes pummelled by giant meteorites, and having recovered from a cosmic collision that blasted the world apart and created the moon from some of the fragments.'

We wouldn't be here without that #moon

#lifeonearth

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jan/19/luca-is-the-progenitor-of-all-life-on-earth-but-its-genesis-has-implications-far-beyond-our-planet