SINGULAR EVENT? “It is often said that eukaryotes arose only once. What must really be meant by this is that there was but one last eukaryotic common ancestor (LECA) from which all contemporary living things that we call eukaryotes descend, and that if other lineages with similar features arose independently, they are now extinct or have not been found.”
http://www.pnas.org/content/112/33/10278.full