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All Life on Earth Comes From One Single Ancestor. And It's So Much Older Than We Thought. (www.popularmechanics.com)
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[–] zabadoh@ani.social 1 points 3 days ago

...scientists still don’t understand how life evolved from its very origins to the early communities of which LUCA is a part.

Failure of alien biocontainment systems. Or maybe deliberate life seeding. Or hitchhiking enclosed ecosystem, like a biosphere, on a meteorite.