Month: July 2020

Republished from The Conversation https://theconversation.com/bacteria-and-viruses-are-travelling-the-world-on-highways-in-the-sky-142854 Microbes are the truly dominant group of lifeforms. These invisible pieces of biogenic matter have been running Earth’s affairs for billions of years. Plants and animals popped up as the […]

The biosphere is a truly vast cosmic cloud dominated by microbes. Even though this biosphere description places us, other animals, and plants in the evolutionary back corner, it tallies with the history of life. Microbes, […]