Re: News: Scientists Develop New Method to Investigate Origin of Life
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Re: News: Scientists Develop New Method to Investigate Origin of Life         

Group: sci.bio.evolution · Group Profile
Author: Tim Tyler
Date: Sep 16, 2008 09:34

Robert Karl Stonjek wrote:
> Patterson said [...] "We already are producing evolutionary trees with
> much more detail than what we show in the paper," he said. "In fact, we are
> surprised at our progress so far in our goal of tracing these histories all
> the way back to the beginning of life."

Trees can only go back as far as the LUCA.

About a million miles from the origin of life, IMHO.
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