The Microbial Eve: Our Oldest Ancestors Were Single-Celled Organisms
Consider this: Evidence points to a microbial Eve as our first ancestor — a tough, underwater organism withstanding extremes that became every other creature to ever live, says Marcelo Gleiser.
If Victorians were offended by Charles Darwin's claim that we descended from monkeys, imagine their surprise if they knew that our first ancestor was much more primitive than that, a mere single-celled creature, our microbial Eve.
We now know that all extant living creatures derive from a single common ancestor, called LUCA, the . It's hard to think of a more unifying view of life. All living creatures are linked to a single-celled creature, the root to
