Re: News: Scientists Develop New Method to Investigate Origin of Life



Robert Karl Stonjek wrote:

Patterson said [...] "We already are producing evolutionary trees with
much more detail than what we show in the paper," he said. "In fact, we are
surprised at our progress so far in our goal of tracing these histories all
the way back to the beginning of life."

Trees can only go back as far as the LUCA.

About a million miles from the origin of life, IMHO.
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