@larsgentry ok hear me out i’ve thought of this at length. LUCA for erid could be the same as earth, who can supports panspermia theory (which grace believes in); eridians have also evolved a form of pentaradial symmetry (5 hearts, 5 legs, etc) and is basically a starfish, which is one of—
@larsgentry — the earliest groups to exist (their ancestors anyways).
or fuck me and my theory and perhaps erid and earth have some environmental proxies that ‘forced’ convergent evolution at one point