>> We're quantifiably more bacteria than mammal. I was referring to this: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=strange-but-true-humans-carry-more-bacterial-cell

>> We're quantifiably more bacteria than mammal. I was referring to this: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=strange-but-true-humans-carry-more-bacterial-cells-than-human-ones&sc=WR_20071204 http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=strange-but-true-humans-... > So you think humans are the general solution for the global^Wuniversal optimization problem? It's not that we're physically optimal, but that we're good enough to be able to manipulate heat to an extent that makes metallurgy possible, which allows us to non-trivially optimize our environment to ourselves.