Luca
see also: LUCA
Pronunciation
LUCA
Noun
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see also: LUCA
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈluːkə/
- A male given name borrowed from Italian in the 2000s.
LUCA
Noun
Luca (plural Lucas)
- (taxonomy, biology, paleontology) Initialism of last universal common ancestor; the hypothesised most recent primordial organism that is an ancestor to all organisms now living.
- 1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial 2000, p. 19:
- Luca is now usually placed deep underground, in a fissure in hot igneous rocks, where she fed on sulphur, iron, hydrogen and carbon.
- 2011 November 26, Michael Marshall, Our ancestor, the mega-organism, New Scientist, page 8:
- It was around 2.9 billion years ago that LUCA split into the three domains of life: the single-celled bacteria and archaea, and the more complex eukaryotes that gave rise to animals and plants […] .
- Synonyms: LUA
- 1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial 2000, p. 19:
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