In Microbiology lecture all like

Then you realise, MICROBES ARE EVERYWHARRRR
But then you just run about licking stuff to toughen up the immune system

YEAHHHH.
It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent upon each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us. —
Charles Darwin - (sixth edition of the “Origin of Species”)
It would seem fitting to begin the blog with my favourite quote from, arguably, the most groundbreaking book in evolution studies.