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andrewflnrtoday at 2:08 PM0 repliesview on HN

The headline is a little confusing. They're still talking about a "split" between bacteria and archaea, so even under this theory, the very roots of metabolism and (I'm guessing) genetic code etc still have a single origin.

Anyway, it does provide a nice reason that bacterial and archaeal cell membranes are different.