🗄️The Deep History of Ourselves: The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains¶

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This cell, he says, was quite sophisticated, and by virtue of having survived, passed its survival-relevant traits on to every subsequent cell that has lived since, including all the cells in our bodies. The primordial organism, the mother of all life, has a name, or a nickname: she’s called LUCA, the last universal common ancestor of all of life, the base of the tree of life.* ^ref-18128 - Location: 383

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Recent studies have shown that these cells are not just passively attached but actually communicate by generating electrical signals, which they use to coordinate feeding and reproduction and to attract new members to the group. ^ref-44460

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