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So origin of life could be a complete chemical system that can maintain itself and do its thing.
So there's likely some theory.
Where it could be sustained.
Well, in biological terms, it is four billion years.
That's the latest time for this ancestor.
That's the last universal common ancestor, Luca.
So that's the first organism.
But keep in mind, we use what we refer to as phylogenetics, these trees, tree of lives.
Obviously, there is no tree of life.
It's our romanticized view of life that we collect everything.
We drove trees and we imagine everyone.
You're telling me there's no tree of life?
It's a thing, I know, sorry.
Biologists like metaphors.
You'll take that from me?
Because it doesn't really factor into the genetic exchange between organisms.
And I think it creates this understanding.