Echoes of a Billion Years: When Deep‑Sea Hydrothermal Bacteria Tell Us the Story of Plate Tectonics
Microbes are planetary organisms coevolving with plate motion, ocean chemistry, and oxygenation over billion‑year timescales. The tenet "everything is everywhere, but environment selects" needs a geological footnote: "Everything is everywhere, but the deep history of the planet selects, too."