AngryZealot
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Bollocks. Your body contains more bacterial cells than human cells. There are about 40 million bacteria in a single gram of soil. One estimate puts the number of bacteria on the planet at 5,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, and if we count viruses, there are about 10 virions for every bacterium. The most common and diverse animal is the nematode; if every other living thing disappeared, you could still see the outlines of every creature left by nematodes. Complex life is an artifact of perception: this is a microbial world.