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View submission: xkcd 1338: Land Mammals
It is a totally different picture if you consider land **animals** rather than mammals, and even crazier when considering all life.
All of us complex species are a blip. And among the complex ones, this is a planet of insects.
Comment by rdm_box at 06/03/2014 at 03:20 UTC
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Yeah. We're pretty much human slaves, in an insect nation.
aaaaaaaaaaa^(AAAAAAAAAAAAA)AAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Comment by [deleted] at 24/03/2014 at 07:40 UTC
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I'm more interested in a land vertebrates chart. If I'm going to be chauvinistic about nervous systems, that seems the best way to do it.
Comment by epicwisdom at 05/03/2014 at 21:46 UTC
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By weight or by count? Unicellular organisms and insects may outnumber us a thousand, million, or billion to one (or 10^18 for all I know)... But it seems like their weight would offset that quite a bit.