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The evolution of life on Earth has progressed over billions of years from single-celled organisms to large animals and other species, including humans.

If they’re right—if the evolution of organisms really is woven together with the evolution of planets—their hypothesis will have profound consequences in our search for life beyond Earth.

All life on Earth can be traced back to a Last Universal Common Ancestor, or LUCA—and it likely lived on Earth only 400 million years after its formation.

One day, it may help us decode what’s to come. “Understanding how the evolution of life has been linked to major changes in Earth’s history is a fundamental question in biology,” says Berv.