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“The knowledge that micro-organisms can be helpful to man has never had much popular appeal, for men as a rule are more preoccupied with the danger that threatens their life than in the biological forces on which they depend"
— Dec 11, 2020 09:00AM
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"..when animals share habits, their microbiomes often converge. For example, Knight and his colleagues once showed that ant-eating mammals, including pangolins, armadillos, anteaters, aardvarks, and aardwolves (a type of hyena), all have similar gut microbes, even though they have been evolving independently for around 100 million years."
— Dec 10, 2020 03:34PM
