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They've known about the Paulinella genus for several decades, but they're always glad to discover a new species. This genus acquired a photosynthetic symbiont "only" 100 million years ago, and it's only partway through the process of losing its genes. It's a snapshot of the evolutionary process.
TBH, this has almost nothing to do with the origins of life.
This ranks right up there with the author who wrote a children's book about a village where they had to turn over 102% of the potatoes they grew. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomperipossa_in_Monismania
(projectile point design is difficult; you can't haft archaic and yeet it too)
Our current best guess is a geothermal vent in a high phosphorus 'soda lake' like the one in Canada. https://www.science.org/content/article/unusual-soda-lakes-m...
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2228:_Machine_Lea...
http://www.zitterbug.net/future/future815.html
What If Light Was Really Slow? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge_j31Yx_yk -- https://duckduckgo.com/?q=slower+speed+of+light&ia=videos&ia...
Cultures: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Pottery_culture & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamnaya_culture & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corded_Ware_culture & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_people
Civilizations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Great_Zimbabwe & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mali_Empire & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indus_Valley_Civilisation & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztecs
The reason we're talking about the recipe is because it's one of the oldest recorded recipes, which is because they had writing.