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Each point here represents all the complex microbes in an entire microbial community.

So what we're looking at is each point represents one microbial community from one body site of one healthy volunteer.

So if I look at just one person's microbes in the mouth and in the gut, it turns out that the difference between those two microbial communities is enormous.

What it means is that a few feet of difference in the human body makes more of a difference to your microbial ecology than hundreds of miles on Earth.

Well, each of us consists of about 10 trillion human cells, but we harbor as many as 100 trillion microbial cells.

Now, you might think, well, we're human because of our DNA, but it turns out that each of us has about 20,000 human genes, depending on what you count exactly, but as many as two million to 20 million microbial genes.

So whichever way we look at it, we're vastly outnumbered by our microbial symbionts.

And it turns out that in addition to traces of our human DNA, we also leave traces of our microbial DNA on everything we touch.

But it turns out that in adults, microbial communities are relatively stable, so even if you live together with someone, you'll maintain your separate microbial identity over a period of weeks, months, even years.

It turns out that our first microbial communities depend a lot on how we're born.

What you can see, and remember each step in this is just one week, what you can see is that week to week, the change in the microbial community of the feces of this one child, the differences week to week are much greater than the differences between individual healthy adults in the Human Microbiome Project cohort, which are those brown dots down at the bottom.

But how can we tell whether these microbial differences that correlate with disease are cause or effect?

So you might be wondering whether we can also do this sort of thing across species, and it turns out that if you take microbes from an obese person and transplant them into mice you've raised germ-free, those mice will also become fatter than if they received the microbes from a lean person, but we can design a microbial community that we inoculate them with that prevents them from gaining this weight.

What we need to do, though, is we need to develop a kind of microbial GPS, where we don't just know where we are currently but also where we want to go and what we need to do in order to get there, and we need to be able to make this simple enough that even a child can use it.

But here's the thing: We are the only advanced civilization in the solar system, but that doesn't mean that there is no microbial life nearby.

So by now, I think I have convinced you that Mars is very special to us, but it would be a mistake to think that Mars is the only place in the solar system that is interesting to find potential microbial life.

All together, they are telling us what started as a microbial pathway, and why what started as a microbial pathway sometimes ends up as a civilization or sometimes ends up as a dead end.

And so when it comes time when we find gases in exoplanet atmospheres that we won't know if they're being produced by intelligent aliens or by trees, or a swamp, or even just by simple, single-celled microbial life.

Most astrobiologists are trying to figure out if there's microbial life on Mars, or in the ocean under the frozen surface of Jupiter's moon Europa, or in the liquid hydrocarbon lakes that we've found on Saturn's moon Titan.

Each is a different habitat for microbial communities: from the arid deserts of our skin, to the villages on our lips, and the cities in our mouths.

Well, things like our genetic makeup and the microbes we encounter throughout our lives can contribute to our microbial ecosystems.

For example, food made of complex molecules, like an apple, requires a lot of different microbial workers to break it down.

What doesn't function well are gut microbial communities with only a few different types of workers.

For example, humans who suffer from diseases like diabetes or chronic gut inflamation typically have less microbial variety in their guts.

We don't fully understand the best way to manage our individual microbial societies, but it is likely that lifestyle changes, such as eating a varied diet of complex, plant-based foods, can help revitalize our microbial ecosystems in our gut and across the entire landscape of our body.

Now in addition to the surfaces, we also study the chemical and microbial signals that attract corals to reefs.

Right now we're seeing microbial diseases from the tropics spread to the higher latitudes; the transportation revolution has had a lot to do with this.

But the changing conditions change the latitudes and the areas where these microbial diseases can become endemic and change the range of the vectors, like mosquitoes and ticks that carry them.

And inside these wells, then microbial communities begin to form.

And so the spongy soil not only resists erosion, but sets up a microbial universe that gives rise to a plurality of other organisms.

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