Biodiversity
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A community about the variety of life on Earth at all levels; including plants, animals, bacteria, and fungi.
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Biodiversity is a term used to describe the enormous variety of life on Earth. It can be used more specifically to refer to all of the species in one region or ecosystem. Biodiversity refers to every living thing, including plants, bacteria, animals, and humans. Scientists have estimated that there are around 8.7 million species of plants and animals in existence. However, only around 1.2 million species have been identified and described so far, most of which are insects. This means that millions of other organisms remain a complete mystery.
Over generations, all of the species that are currently alive today have evolved unique traits that make them distinct from other species. These differences are what scientists use to tell one species from another. Organisms that have evolved to be so different from one another that they can no longer reproduce with each other are considered different species. All organisms that can reproduce with each other fall into one species. Read more...
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Resources
- The Convention on Biological Diversity (UN)
- The Biodiversity Heritage Library
- Maps of the World's Biodiversity
- Ecosystems and Human Well-Being (free e-book)
- Falling Fruit: Map of the Urban Harvest
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I hope that one day you're able to get past this penchant for resorting to magical thinking.
You may think that astrology is just harmless fun, but at a societal level, the acceptable of pseudoscience like this as meritorious is dangerous.
This is the kind of thinking that leads to being anti-vax, and why children are dying of fucking measles again.
This is the kind of thinking that allows people to completely ignore the science surrounding it, and stake their entire personality on the belief that abortion is literal murder.
You're eroding away your own ability to think critically.
The universe is incredible enough, there's zero reason to ascribe magic traits to things without evidence. Learn astronomy instead, and be blown away when you can empirically prove the insane shit that you see.
You simply haven’t even read my response or are completely unable to explore that far outside your comfort zone. I’ve even given you a scientific response, and you don’t even react to it. And guess who’s now starting to sound like a pseudoscience person?
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Impressive how you swung that to abortion too! You seem to have failed to counter my excellent rebuttal, hence your reflex to deflect to other baiting issues.