![]() ![]() Bacteria are indeed a major life form – 13% of everything – but plants overshadow everything, representing 82% of all living matter. The new work is the first comprehensive estimate of the weight of every class of living creature and overturns some long-held assumptions. Yet since the dawn of civilisation, humanity has caused the loss of 83% of all wild mammals and half of plants, while livestock kept by humans abounds. The world’s 7.6 billion people represent just 0.01% of all living things, according to the study. Humankind is revealed as simultaneously insignificant and utterly dominant in the grand scheme of life on Earth by a groundbreaking new assessment of all life on the planet.
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