Bonnie Bassler
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 20 Jul
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do things as groups, because those seem like very evolved behaviors, right?
But then if you think about it, right, we all came from bacteria, you know, where you think this stuff comes from.
And then again, going back to what I said that started this is, if you think about all the profound things bacteria can do, good or bad,
How could we have thought for so long that a tiny little bacterium could do all of that, right?
And so now I have to say, now that quorum sensing is an established field, we get that bacteria work in groups.
And when you let me, I'll tell you how it works.
But anyway, we get that they work in groups.
We get that they carry out these tasks as armies, right?
When you think about it in retrospect—
I spent a lot of my time thinking like, why did it take us so long to figure that out?
It had to be like that.
And so in retrospect, now it just seems, it actually seems obvious now.
But of course, that's after a discovery gets made.
No, probably not.
I mean, the notion now, right, is that these organisms, this domain that we call the archaea, right, old, are the ancestors of the first living organisms on Earth.
And that is because those microbes...
live in really hostile environments.
Like they live in thermal vents or really cold places or dry, dusty places.
So they seem to be able to thrive in places currently on Earth that are the closest to what we think Earth was like billions of years ago.
You know, it was a bubbling volcanic plots and things like that, right?
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