2019-12-31

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Journey to the Microcosmos

In a world without microbes, this channel wouldn't exist.

But there are other, more important things that would stop existing as well, and today we're going to explore just what could survive a world without our little micro friends, and for how long.

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This video features the songs Fireworks and Triad Flux by Andrew Huang which are available here: https://andrewhuang.bandcamp.com/album/the-lyres-in-trees

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SOURCES:

https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/mass-extinctions

https://www.pnas.org/content/111/15/5462

https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/9/e1700906

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/did-microbes-cause-the-worst-mass-extinction-ever/

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/12/171218154925.htm

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-018-0625-0

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180730120340.htm

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4267716/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3426293/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27980855

https://bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12915-014-0069-1

https://mbio.asm.org/content/7/3/e00714-16

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4936035/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26598941