The Gospel of LUCA. In Search of the Common Ancestor of All Living Things

The book "The Gospel of LUCA" tells about the animal world and humanity. Only LUCA (Last Universal Common Ancestor) is not an apostle, but our common ancestor, and to understand what kind of creature this is, the reader, along with the author of the book, biologist Maxim Vinarsky, will travel a distance of over 4 billion years.
He will become acquainted with the history of the emergence and evolution of multicellular animals. He will discover that we, humans, are just one of many branches of the great Tree of Life, and that the species Homo sapiens was formed according to laws that apply to the evolution of all living things. He will understand how biologists identify relationships between animals and reconstruct their evolutionary paths. He will learn about the lives and scientific discoveries of scientists—those who came to the idea of the evolutionary kinship of all organisms on Earth and figured out how this kinship can be determined.