Microbial Dark Matter and the Search for Life on Earth

Microbial Dark Matter and the Search for Life on Earth(mceglowski.substack.com)

1 points by idlewords 4 days ago | 1 comment

anitil 3 days ago |

This was a really fun read. I loved the retelling of the explosion of new discoveries -

"A consistent pattern in the new era of discovery has been that some bizarre microbe is discovered living in a preposterous environment like a hydrothermal vent, and then a couple of years later we find out it also makes up 40% of our intestinal flora"

anitil 3 days ago |

This was a really fun read. I loved the retelling of the explosion of new discoveries -

"A consistent pattern in the new era of discovery has been that some bizarre microbe is discovered living in a preposterous environment like a hydrothermal vent, and then a couple of years later we find out it also makes up 40% of our intestinal flora"