Ryan North

The mosquito is one of the few animals that, if removed, would have no lasting negative impact on the world: the activities they perform in the ecosystem (feeding birds, some light pollination) are already performed by other insects. The only legacy would be fewer human deaths from malaria.

It wasn’t until 1816 CE that we realized proteins were important, and then only by noticing that if we forced dogs to eat nothing but sugar they still died of starvation.
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