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Our capabilities are so high and our population so differentiated we basically hold nearly all the records for everything (barring some extremeophile metrics) so it makes sense.
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It helps we write the record categories. We only measure stuff we find relevant to our existence which happens to be what we probably do sorta well.

Yeah, cool, what categories do you have in mind? Sure we have bias but not infinite bias.

I'll start!

How about sea urchin destruction? I bet otters and sheepshead fish probably have little bookies keeping track and they know which species or virus hold the records! Very fun stuff! I bet they have little tablets to keep track of their records that go back thousands of years? Oh man, yeah, good point about species bias!




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