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>>>>> There have been a set of 355 protein clusters present in all organisms
>>>>> identified as belonging to the *last universal common ancestor*, or
>>>>> *LUCA*, or *cenancestor*, or (incorrectly) as the *progenote*.
>>>>>
>>>>> (The physiology and habitat of the last universal common ancestor" by
>>>>> Madeline C. Weiss, FilipaL.Sousa, Natalia Mrnjavac, Sinje Neukirchen,
>>>>> Mayo Roettger, Shijulal Nelson-Sathi and William F. Martin (July 25,
>>>>> 2016) Nature Microbiology 16116 | doi:10.1038/NMICROBIOL.2016.116_)
>>>>>
>>>>> Now, we can't say much about the biology of the LUCA, but what we can
>>>>> say is that it most likely was a thermophile, that is, heat-loving
>>>>> organism, and most likely inhabited the deep sea vents. It probably had
>>>>> DNA based genome, but it's plausible that it had an RNA-based genome
>>>>> instead. It was also most likely a chemoautotroph, that is, it derived
>>>>> its metabolism from chemicals such as methane or carbon dioxide.
>>>>
>>>> Not really much of a paleontology post, eh?
>>>
>>> It's not rocky paleontology, but it's an interesting result. Nice catch.
>>
>> The full paper is available from this site:
>>
http://www.molevol.hhu.de/publikationen.html
>>
>> Pandora
>>
>
>How're you able to gain access to these papers so quickly?