Science
24 min
The Thin Layer on Top
You and a daffodil are close. That is the small distance.
Everything we think of as life occupies one small branch of a tree whose other two branches are entirely microbial. The genetic distance between those microbial domains is greater than the distance between a human and a daffodil. The visible world is the exception, not the rule.
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About Mythio
One story, one sitting.
Mythio is a library of audio documentaries on the ideas, people, and events that shaped the world. Each episode is researched across the best sources, fact-checked, and told in full. Most run twenty to thirty minutes, long enough to go deep, short enough to finish in one sitting.