
Community, Culture and Collaboration
Complete Curiosity
The Two Most Successful Species on the Planet Are Human Beings and Bacteria
The two most successful species on the planet are human beings and bacteria. Human beings have a neocortex, so hopefully it won't take us two billion years to realize that we're smarter than bacteria. Ninety percent of all the cells in the human body are bacterial cells. And bacteria at the core have learnt to collaborate. So there's an ecosystem between viruses, bacteria and human.
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