Meet LUCA
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In this episode I want to introduce you to someone. Actually, this someone is a thing, and this thing wiggled its way through life between two to four billion years ago.
Listener, meet LUCA. Your Last Universal Common Ancestor.
LUCA, meet your descendant.
For show notes and more, please visit https://EvolutionTalk.com
Written, Produced, & Narrated by: Rick Coste
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