Published November 25, 2016
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Is LUCA a thermophilic progenote?
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We comment on several claims made in the paper by Weiss et al. which describes a genomic analysis that they believe is consistent with the origin of life and emergence of a progenote-like last universal common ancestor (LUCA) in hydrothermal vent conditions.