Howard Bloom - Bacteria Quotes

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The notion that individualism came first runs against the very grain of cosmic history.... grouping has been inherent in evolution since the first quarks joined to form neutrons and protons. Similarly, replicators—RNA, DNA, and genes—have always worked in teams... The bacteria of 3.5 billion years ago were creatures of the crowd. So were the trilobites and echinoderms of the Cambrian age.

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Primordial commuinities of bacteria were elaborately interwoven by communication links.... These turned a colony into a collective processor... The resulting learning machine was so ingenious that Eshel Ben-Jacob has called its modern bacterial counterpart a "creative web."

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The microbial brain—gifted with long-range transport, data trading, genetic variants... and the ability to reinvent genomes—began its operations some 91 trillion bacterial generations before the birth of the Internet. Ancient bacteria, if they functioned like those today, had mastered the art of worldwide information exchange.... The earliest microorganisms would have used planet-sweeping currents of wind and water to carry the scraps of genetic code...

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