Animals and plants rule the world - or do they? A cup of seawater contains 100 million cells which are preyed upon by billions of viruses; a pinch of soil swarms with cryptic microbes whose activities are a mystery; 50 million tons of fungal spores are released into the atmosphere every year and affect the weather; and, human beings are mobile ecosystems that farm, and are farmed by, vast populations of bacteria and viruses involved with almost every aspect of our wellbeing. These are the vast, unnoticed, unmentioned ...
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Animals and plants rule the world - or do they? A cup of seawater contains 100 million cells which are preyed upon by billions of viruses; a pinch of soil swarms with cryptic microbes whose activities are a mystery; 50 million tons of fungal spores are released into the atmosphere every year and affect the weather; and, human beings are mobile ecosystems that farm, and are farmed by, vast populations of bacteria and viruses involved with almost every aspect of our wellbeing. These are the vast, unnoticed, unmentioned 'elephants in the room' of planet earth. The more we learn about microbial biodiversity, the less important do animals and plants become in our understanding life on earth. The flowering of microbial science is revolutionizing biology and medicine in ways unimagined even a decade or two ago, and is inspiring a new view of what it means to be human. Nicholas P. money explores the extraordinary breadth of the microbial world and the vast swathes of biological diversity that are now becoming recognized using molecular methods. Money argues for nothing less than a revolution in our perception of the living world: the big lumbering forms we see are just froth on a vast ocean of single-celled protists, bacteria, and viruses that constitute most of life on earth.
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This is truly a well-written overview of what might be called the "neglected kingdoms" of living organisms on our planet. Dr. Money's chapter on extremophiles' unique habitats and the promise they hold for potential new technologies alone is well worth the money spent on the book. Potential readers who aren't current in their knowledge of the biological classification of pro- and eukaryotic microbes and fungi might want to do a bit of reading on that topic before wading into the book, but overall, the writing style and reading level are quite within the reach of many people. The only negative in the book was the author's frequent attempts to enter the realm of philosophy by downplaying human exceptionalism. His implications that a high-entropy living system like the human body can simply self-assemble given enough time would seem to go against the logic of thermodynamics and enter the realm of faith. That having been said, however, the book is fascinating and thought-provoking and needs to be read and discussed by at least by everyone involved in life-science education, as well environmental policy-makers.
