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And the greatest and most endangered species in the Amazon Rainforest is not the jaguar, it's not the harpy eagle, it's the isolated and uncontacted tribes.
Physicians and scientists, we accept intellectually that our species, Homo sapiens, is merely one species, no more unique or special than any other.
I feel that tug of human exceptionalism, even as I recognize the scientifically isolating cost of seeing ourselves as a superior species, apart.
Of course, most physicians don't realize that it is harder to get into vet school these days than medical school, and that when we go to medical school, we learn everything there is to know about one species, Homo sapiens, but veterinarians need to learn about health and disease in mammals, amphibians, reptiles, fish and birds.
But here's one from the vets: What do you call a veterinarian who can only take care of one species?
Like them, many species of whales saw their numbers drastically reduced by 200 years of whaling, where they were hunted and killed for their whale meat, oil and whale bone.
As these carcasses sink, they provide a feast to some 400-odd species, including the eel-shaped, slime-producing hagfish.
So over the 200 years of whaling, when we were busy killing and removing these carcasses from the oceans, we likely altered the rate and geographic distribution of these whale falls that would descend into deep oceans, and as a result, probably led to a number of extinctions of species that were most specialized and dependent on these carcasses for their survival.
Sometimes these carcasses also wash up on beaches and provide a meal to a number of predatory species on land.
And among all this biodiversity that they had never seen before, they found one species that caught their attention very quickly.
This species, when you cut the bark, you find a very dark red resin that was very good to paint and dye fabric to make clothes.
The indigenous people called this species pau brasil, and that's the reason why this land became "land of Brasil," and later on, Brazil.
Just to take biodiversity, at the current rate, by 2050, 30 percent of all species on Earth will have disappeared.
It can be extended even to other species.
We need to extend altruism to the other 1.6 million species.
One of the amazing things that I've discovered in my travels is that there is this emerging species.
Luckily, there are several species of milkweed that they can use, and all these milkweeds have cardenolides in them.
And then we measured how much they ate of each species over their lifetime.
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.
As an example, in the case of cats, we have more than 62,000 cats of all kinds of looks and poses and across all species of domestic and wild cats.
We will discover new species, better materials, and explore unseen frontiers with the help of the machines.
We're at a tipping point in human history, a species poised between gaining the stars and losing the planet we call home.
In the samples that we took back home, 36 percent of the bacteria in those lakes were composed of three species, and those three species are the ones that have survived so far.
On Earth, there are many intelligent species, but only one has achieved technology.
Now there's plenty of room for critique that we haven't done enough, and what it is that we've done hasn't been effective enough, but the truth is this: The fight against global poverty is probably the broadest, longest running manifestation of the human phenomenon of compassion in the history of our species.
Some of them are quite creative, like mixing two different species together using a process called grafting to create this variety that's half tomato and half potato.
Now, many people don't mind genetic modification when it comes to moving rice genes around, rice genes in rice plants, or even when it comes to mixing species together through grafting or random mutagenesis.
I explained the genetic engineering, the process of moving genes between species, has been used for more than 40 years in wines, in medicine, in plants, in cheeses.
But if we think about it, we are actually recently arrived guests on this planet, the human species.
Think about if Earth was created one year ago, the human species, then, would be 10 minutes old.
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