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The invisible majority running the planet while we take all the credit.
means Microscopic living things — bacteria, archaea, fungi, protozoa, viruses — too small to see but everywhere doing everything.
from From Greek mikros (small) plus bios (life); coined in 1878 by surgeon Charles Sedillot, who wanted one tidy word for the teeming unseen.
OutnumberedYour body holds roughly as many microbes as cells.
Ancient tenantsThey thrived 3 billion years before animals showed up.
Oxygen makersOcean microbes produce most of the air you breathe.
Mostly harmlessFewer than one percent ever make you sick.