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The microbial world is in a permanent state of war, and humanity is just a battlefield. A war that goes back three billion years before our ancestors came down from the treetops to claim the Earth.
The main belligerent factions in this mother of all wars are bacteria and viruses.
While bacteria are considered one of the simplest life forms on Earth, viruses are thought to be neither living nor dead (even if that depends on how you define “living thing”).
Thus, since the dawn of ages, vicious microscopic clashes have ravaged our planet. Bacteria and the zombie horde of viruses are in a relentless state of alert during an endless all-out war with a single common purpose. The underworld war is a fight for the ability to reproduce.
The million-dollar question is which of these factions came first? Like in the egg’s riddle, there is no simple answer.
Many in the scientific community favor bacteria-first theories. Others support the virus-first hypothesis. I believe that science will eventually introduce new variables to this…
