Making the paper: Manolo Gouy.

The article discusses research by Manolo Gouy and colleagues from the University of Lyon in France regarding the search for different means of tracing the last universal common ancestor (LUCA). Topics include a brief explanation of LUCA, a description of the ribosomal RNA and protein sequence analysis Gouy and colleagues performed, and Gouy and his colleagues' hypothesis regarding LUCA's environmental adaptations.