• porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml
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    9 hours ago

    At some point back you are (probably) related to every living thing on earth, and at the very least every animal and plant and fungus.

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      9 hours ago

      The only exception would be if life had evolved more than once on earth, which is totally possible but we would probably be able to tell.

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        8 hours ago

        Yeah. From what I recall from uni classes on this ten years ago (so we might well know more now) that couldn’t be totally ruled out for the very earliest forms of life but we are as certain as we could be about bacteria just being one tree, and likewise for archaea&eukaryotes.