The uniformity of life and who really owns the planet
Steven Jay Gould, the late philosopher/scientist, pointed out that a visitor from outer space would think bacteria were the true inhabitants of Earth. By a somewhat round about method he showed that the weight of all living creatures and plants was less than the total weight of bacteria on our planet. His contention was that a space traveller would see microbes on every available surface. Some surfaces would be solid, some liquid, some stationary and some mobile and of these latter, some would be slow moving, green coloured ones, while others would move much more quickly and come in a variety of shapes and hues. We would be among these latter bacterial carriers. We have bacteria on our skin in countless numbers, we have even more of them in our guts, and, to cap it all, every single cell in our body relies on mutated, captured bacterial parts for its power supply. Puts us in our place, doesn’t it?
And if that isn’t enough to set your mind working, try this one. Every single living object on Earth, be it microbe, fungus, plant or animal, is made up of the same four amino acids. Only the sequence in which these are knit together separates each living entity from its neighbour.
Look around you. Everything you see, and you yourself, are related…
Gaia.
Signed…John Bart
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