Abstract
Giving Microbes Their Due
Highlights
Most of life’s diversity springs from microbial organisms, which carry out the lion’s share of the chemical transformations that drive the biosphere
It is remarkable that the microbial world is so little recognized by the general public except in the context of disease and rot
Ingraham intends to bring some view of the importance and ubiquity of the microbial world to a general audience, a task for which he is well qualified
Summary
Most of life’s diversity springs from microbial organisms, which carry out the lion’s share of the chemical transformations that drive the biosphere. It is remarkable that the microbial world is so little recognized by the general public except in the context of disease and rot. General biology textbooks at all educational levels do little to rectify this taxonomic snub, as most give short shrift to the remarkably diverse multitudes of microbes that live among us.
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