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The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.

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Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they’ve had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.
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We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
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An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being’s, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat.
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