Study Concludes That There Are Over One TRILLION Species On Earth

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Flowering plants are incredibly diverse, but they wouldn't even exist without microbial lifeforms. dk tazunoki/Shutterstock



Life on Earth, thanks to the mechanisms of natural selection and evolutionary biology, is incredibly diverse. Darwin once waxed lyrical about “endless forms most beautiful,” and he wasn’t wrong: Life can be found everywhere, from the top of brand new volcanic islands to the dark depths of the planet’s crust.

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Published on May 03, 2016 17:04
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