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All Life On Earth Has One Single Ancestor. It Vanished Without a Trace.
(www.popularmechanics.com)
isn't all the rest of the life that's around literally 'the trace' ?
this post was submitted on 26 Mar 2026
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If the link is to popular mechanics, it’s clickbait.
I used to love getting that magazine in the mail.
But also, why would we assume it wouldn't be outcompeted? Most common ancestors are dead / changed somewhat aren't they?
Yes. 99.9% of the species to ever live, are gone
Tldr: most likely, microbiology was first living thing on earth and as they have no bones they “leave” without trace (fossils). That there really is a common ancestor is not at all proven based on the linked article…
Let me guess, it went out for cigarettes one night.
Milk
ancestor was prolly just a stick of rna stuck in the cracks of sea vent
Bubbling goo. You can still find bubbling goo on Earth.