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It's funny. We, as humans, believe that we are the most superior products of evolution. While we are the most complex known species in the universe (mammals with highly specialized systems and unparallel cognitive ability), we often surpass the possibilities of other organisms having equal success on their individual levels of survival and natural selection.

Perhaps the greatest example I can give is in regards to bacteria. Just imagine: the entire human race is demolished due to a nuclear wipe out. All animals and plants have perished, but those crafty little bacteria survive and are free to rule the globe.

Bacteria produce like it's their job... As a matter of fact, it is their job. Their incredibly high reproductive rate allows for them to be the simplest organism with the greatest threat of damage. Bacteria are immensely successful at what they do-they produce and die, produce and die, passing their nastiness onto anything & everything. In fact, they are equally successful at life as humans given their level of simplicity. They are very flexible in where they make their homes. A toilet, a toothbrush, a handrail-it’s all “home sweet home” for them.

I think the problem is that we are to ethnocentric, thinking that we are the best just because our brains are the most complex & we can speak eloquently. We may be able to “kill 99.9% of germs with Lysol spay”, but bacteria has us surrounded. Touché.