Life as we know it most likely arose via 'long, slow dance'
Thursday, June 16, 2016 - 19:51
in Biology & Nature
The first eukaryote is thought to have arisen when simpler archaea and bacteria joined forces. But researchers now propose that new genomic evidence derived from a deep-sea vent on the ocean floor suggests that the molecular machinery essential to eukaryotic life was probably borrowed, little by little over time, from those simpler ancestors.