A new study from researchers at Harvard University has found that human communication has outpaced all other forms of life on Earth by a whopping 800 years. The study, which was published in the journal Nature Communications, analyzed the growth rate of communication across species on Earth and found that the rate of human communication had increased exponentially since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. This increase has been so rapid that it has outpaced even the growth rate of the most successful species on Earth, such as bacteria and viruses. The findings suggest that humanity is now in a unique position to influence the evolution of life on Earth.

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source: Phys.org