Introducing Geremy (and Behe)

[evograd (Blogging Graduate Student)]

@Geremy

Despite the claims of some researchers there are no demonstrably transitional organisms between archaean and eukaryotes, the claims about Lokiarchaea such claims are contradicted by available data, such as the paper that I linked below:

Lokiarchaea are close relatives of Euryarchaeota, not bridging the gap between prokaryotes and eukaryotes

This paper has been convincingly responded to by the original authors (Spang et al) and independent groups, e.g.:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-019-1040-x
and
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1916-6

The data currently supports the fact that the Asgard archaea are sister to eukaryotes.