LUCA: THE LAST UNIVERSAL COMMON ANCESTOR.the most recent ancestor shared by every living thing on Earth.
Not the first life. Not quite the beginning. But always, always important.
What is LUCA?LUCA is the population from which all life alive today ultimately descends.
The singular seed from which our Tree of Life grew.
// NOTE //LUCA lived probably more than 3.5 billion years ago.
We don't know exactly what it looked like, where it lived, or what its world felt like. Its existence is reconstructed from evidence and DNA shared across living organisms.
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What of LUCA?SMALL TIDINGS, HUGE CONSEQUENCES
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LUCA's functionality, and evidence for the early evolution of membrane-dependent biological systems, together suggest that LUCA was a cell with membranes.
REMINDERYou are not separate from nature, observing it from the outside. You are nature, looking back at itself.
ONE.ONE PLANET.
ONE SHARED ANCESTRY.
COUNTLESS FORMS OF LIFE.
infinite evolution
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LIVING & WELife was born to inherit the stars.
We were born to be explorers, seekers of the unknown. Survivors
We owe it to every organism living through our blood to fulfill this purpose.
WE, THE CHILDREN OF LUCA
LAST UNIVERSAL COMMON ANCESTOR
WHY IT MATTERS TO METhinking about LUCA makes me feel connected to all life, at every given moment.
Every breath, every leaf, every creature belongs to a story that began long before us. We are temporary, individual lives within an ancient, continuing lineage.
CONNECTIONEvolution makes the familiar extraordinary. A tree, a mushroom, a whale, a bacterium, and you seem worlds apart.
Yet, all belong to the same immense story of life, unfolding across deep time.
The truth is, we are all part of the same cosmic equation on earth. and that is beautiful.
" Beyond this place of wrath and tears, Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds, and shall find, me unafraid. "