Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA)

Layer 3 — Biologyin the Origins Of Life subtree

Inferred most-recent common ancestor of all extant cellular life (~3.5-4.0 Gya). Had translation, DNA, core metabolism; habitat debated (Weiss et al. 2016 vent reconstruction contested).

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