linkedin post 2021-11-28 05:15:17

SO ENDS this first of two weekends on the startling consequences of promiscuous horizontal gene transfer in microorganisms, creating the planet’s largest gene pool. These tiny creatures, so long overlooked, are the Atlases that drive immense biogeochemical cycles of matter. Professor Doolittle ingeniously suggests that their tiny metabolisms cog with these great cycles of matter as functional units of natural selection, rather than their rather meaningless species designations.

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