To First Approximation, Mammals Do Not Exist

[swamidass (S. Joshua Swamidass)]

Continuing the discussion from The Problem with the ID Argument:

@Faizal_Ali

Mammals account for an almost insignificant proportion of the world’s biomass. Most of that in the form of human cultivated livestock:

@AllenWitmerMiller

Great relative biomasses color illustrations! We need to have these kinds of information summaries in a convenient place on the PS website.

@Faizal_Ali

It’s a mind blower, isn’t it? There are basically, to a first approximation, no mammals left on earth except for humans and the mammals we have bred for food.

I was remiss in not citing the source:

https://www.pnas.org/content/115/25/6506