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Originally Posted by TechniSol
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1. On any given day, by an overwhelming margin, we are the predominate species present on the planet. So far as we know the only one that ever dominated to the degree that we have.
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And, on any given day, a human is just a microbial ecosystem (microbiome) containing ten times as many microbial cells as human cells, and vastly more microbial genetic material than human genetic material.
The idea that humans are "predominate" is just in our heads -- along with many "other" things we may be hesitant to think about
