Belly Button lint and other branches of the Tree of Life
We lose a thousand species a day, many mircrobial, the rest being plants, animals and insects, fishes, fowl and whatever, with similar amounts being newly evolved, perhaps at an ever greater rate.
Belly button (bb)diversity only further suggests that the Darwin Tree of Life's trunk is short and stout, with unimaginable cross-fertilization occuring at the ends of broad disparate branches which touch, exchange and combine in ways we are just beginning to discover.
One could surely ask where the bb diversity originates, inside or outside the body, or from both.
As larger sample bases are developed might we find useful drugs, genetic modifications that could prove useful as well?
I always knew there was a reason to save the lint!
