From
http://www.harvardmagazine.com/2007/11/the-undiscovered-planet.html
"...there is 'far less genetic difference between [a human being] and
a potato' than there is between, say, 'the bacterium that causes
tuberculosis and the one that causes cholera'"
"The world of animals-from elephants to ants-is divided into 13 phyla
(vertebrates are one phylum, insects another). In the microbial world,
their equivalents are called, for the time being, "deep-rooting
branches." In 1987, 13 of these big divisions were known in the
bacterial domain...by 2004 we had found 80 such divisions from which
we couldn't cultivate even a single representative"
"The human cells in your body number 10 trillion, but that pales by
comparison to the estimated 100 trillion microbial cells that live in
and on you."
"After looking at human gut microflora, they learned that each
individual has his or her own characteristic set of a thousand
species. "These represent three million genes that you carry," points
out Kolter, "as compared to the estimated 18,000 genes of the human
genome."
And the moronic creationist and so-called intelligent so-called design
scum think they can overturn evolution by whining about vertebrates?
Budikka
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