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At Tiny Scales, a Giant Burst on Tree of Life

The Quanta Podcast

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The Rise of Computer-Aided Explanation

There are 1300-1500 phyla that microbiologists estimate will have once a complete accounting is finished. Recent advances in genetic sequencing and genome binning make Brown and Banfield optimistic we'll map them all soon. Rubin: "No sooner do we think we've seen everything than we've come up with a new way to see"

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