He wanted to play God, so he cracked the human genome. Now he wants to play Darwin and collect the DNA of everything on the planet.
Source: Craig Venter’s Epic Voyage to Redefine the Origin of the Species
I just saw something else that was talking about him drilling a mile down into the Earth and sampling bacteria and how little we know of the bacteria in our environment and that we probably have only identified 1%
I think it could be even less than that there are probably species in the gut of an insect somewhere that we have no clue about.
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