What Was The Last Common Ancestor of all Life on Earth?

Written & Researched by Leila Battison. Check out her channel:- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXIk7euOGq6jkptjTzEz5kQ Script & video edited & by Pete Kelly. Check out his channel:- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMq-bTjlaTZhaohEracnN6w Narrated by David Kelly. Check out his channel:- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqoGR_EedlhKDVuWNwYWRbg Thumbnail Art by Ettore Mazza Artwork by Khail Kupsky References for this video:- https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/26/science/last-universal-ancestor.html https://ocean.si.edu/ecosystems/deep-sea/microbes-keep-hydrothermal-vents-pumping https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1228/1228-h/1228-h.htm https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/thoughtomics/did-life-evolve-in-a-warm-little-pond/ https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/DCP-LETT-7471.xml https://www.nature.com/articles/nmicrobiol2016116 https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/03/researchers-may-have-solved-origin-life-conundrum https://phys.org/news/2018-12-luca-universal-common-ancestor.html https://sci-hub.tw/10.1038/scientificamerican0200-90 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3870916/ http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/112179/1/ppnature21377_Dodd_for%20Symplectic.pdf https://www.nature.com/articles/ngeo2025 Image credits:-:- Charles_Darwin_seated.jpg: Henry Maull (1829–1914) and John Fox (1832–1907) (Maull & Fox) [3]derivative work: Beao / Public domain https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_Darwin_by_G._Richmond.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/94/PSM_V57_D097_Hms_beagle_in_the_straits_of_magellan.png https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/04fire/logs/hirez/champagne_vent_hirez.jpg http://libraryphoto.cr.usgs.gov/cgi-bin/show_picture.cgi?ID=ID.%20Normark,%20W.R.%20%20%201 A. D. Rogers et al. - A. D. Rogers et al. in PLoS Biology NOAA Okeanos Explorer Program, Galapagos Rift Expedition 2011 - Flickr NOAA Photo Library Andrew Thurber, Oregon State University - Oregon State University Flickr account: https://www.flickr.com/photos/oregonstateuniversity/6439209127 Janderk - transfered from en.wikipedia.org. Maulucioni y Doridí / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) Scott Fay / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5)