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From: PETER <pmp3321@sae.ssu.umd.edu>
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Subject: last common ancestor

	I'm currently reading the RNA World.  In it they often refer to the last
common ancestor of all living things.  Is it possible that life started
in different places under different conditions and then converged?  Or are
there to many similarities for this to be considered feasible.

				Peter Palenchar