Bonnie Bassler

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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas · 361 | Bonnie Bassler on How Bacteria Talk and Work Together · 20 Jul 2026 podcast

And so we think that those are the current ancestors of whoever were those first

living, replicating organisms on Earth that were presumably microbes.

So they're sort of vestiges, and they inhabit these places like in Yellowstone, right, where the geology's not done.

That's where these archaea live.

They are indeed.

So there are three domains of life.

So archaea

gave rise to both bacteria, prokaryotes, and eukaryotes.

And archaeal genomes actually look more like eukaryotic genomes than bacterial genomes.

But then those archaea, they are relegated to these hostile places that are currently on Earth.

And then the bacteria came and they...

are nearly all of the biodiversity that exists on earth, right?

Almost everything you have that exists on earth, you have not seen with your eyes, right?

So even most eukaryotes are microbes, right?

And so, you know, like if you look at, I wish people could see us because I'm using my gesticulating wildly so they can just imagine me, you're seeing me.

But, you know, when you look at these trees of life that we now, you know, can make because we have genomes,

You know, and you see all the bacteria are huge.

The archaea are a little few branches.

The eukaryotes are a lot of branches.

But only one tip of one little branch of those eukaryotes is every bug and animal and plant and person and tree that you have ever seen.

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