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T1  - Looking for the Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA) 
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UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/159655 
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A1  - Koskela, Minna Maria; Annila, Arto 
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Y1  - 2012 
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AB  - Genomic sequences across diverse species seem to align towards a common ancestry, eventually implying that eons ago some universal antecedent organism would have lived on the face of Earth. However, when evolution is understood not only as a biological process but as a general thermodynamic process, it becomes apparent that the quest for the last universal common ancestor is unattainable. Ambiguities in alignments are unavoidable because the driving forces and paths of evolution cannot be separa... 
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KW  - 1181 Ecology, evolutionary biology; evolution; geodesic; intractability; sequence alignment; the principle of least action; universal ancestor 
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