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I would say we have a complex organism bias though, really the most successful life is simple, more than 90% of earth's biomass is plants, ants, fungi, bacteria
by blacksmith_tb 3y ago
I would say we have a complex organism bias though, really the most successful life is simple, more than 90% of earth's biomass is plants, ants, fungi, bacteria (obviously some of those are more complex than others, but none of them are posting on HN quite).
- SkyMarshal 3y agoSounds like the complexity of life follows a power law distribution, where most of it is simple to moderately complex, but a few species are orders of magnitude more complex than the vast majority. Eg, the vast majority of complexity among living organisms derives from just a few species.