Ep 10: Tangling the Tree of Life
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The Origins of Life
David Wheeler: I don't remember there being a mention of Luca in your book, the sort of the original ancestor of all life on earth. What do you think Woe's would think about that? Did you have conversations with people about the sort of universal first common ancestor? He even concocted his own word for Luca; he called it the progenote.Wheeler: To understand the origins of life, you need to think about what came before that. You spend a lot of time on and describe very beautifully is horizontal gene transfer.
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