The Last Eukaryotic Common Ancestor
I love this paper, but that love has nothing to do with what it concludes about the biomedical basis of modern genetic diseases. What I love about this paper is that it used eukaryotic species which live now to determine more of the characteristics of the last eukaryotic common ancestor (LECA) which lived between 1.8 and 1.5 billion years ago.
Figure 1 is spectacular. I want a poster of this figure for my office wall.
I'm thrilled every single time I see research which tells us more about LECA. Evolution by natural selection and random unpredictable events led from LECA to us. Totally remarkable. Also remarkable is the fact that we can look at life which lives now to get a significant glimpse of the long extinct LECA. Those sorry individuals who believe without evidence in a simpleminded doctrine which declares that some sort of clearly insane supernatural entity purposely made us have limited their perspective to one that is obviously false.
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