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New Estimate Suggests 5.5M Species On Earth, Not 30-100M

Posted by timothy on from the depends-how-you-count dept.

An anonymous reader writes "How many species share our planet? According to a recalculation by an international research team, the number is significantly lower than we thought — only around 5.5 million."

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  1. Re:Well yeah, now... by Galestar · · Score: 0, Troll

    It is a side effect in some situations. Humans killing (read: driving to extinction) other species is no longer beneficial to our evolution.

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  2. Re:from the depends-how-you-count dept by poopdeville · · Score: 0, Troll

    1 is prime. Can you find any divisors of 1 but 1 and itself? No. Therefore, 1 is prime.

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