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Added: 2026-05-10

[00:00:02][music] >> One principle governs all life on Earth.

[00:00:08]Scientists have been searching for confirmation for centuries.

[00:00:13]>> [music] >> Life on Earth has existed for billions of years, and through evolution, it has taken forms that [music] can evoke a range of emotions from awe to terror.

[00:00:24]However, it turns [music] out that despite all this diversity, there is most likely a universal principle that [music] governs all life on Earth.

[00:00:35]Members of an international research [music] team have been able to identify it.

[00:00:41]The scientists behind the paper, published in Nature Ecology and Evolution, [music] focused on how organisms are organized into biogeographic regions across the planet.

[00:00:54]>> [music] >> To gain insight, they considered the distribution of different phyla, assuming that their distribution would [music] vary significantly due to [singing] environmental and historical factors.

[00:01:07]The reality, [music] however, turned out to be quite different.

[00:01:12]Instead of confirming their hypothesis, >> [music] >> they realized that life spreads in a very similar way throughout the world.

[00:01:21]In short, it follows a universal [music] principle, within which we can distinguish a central region associated with the flourishing of life.

[00:01:31]Only from there [music] do individual species begin to spread to other areas of our planet.

[00:01:38]This leads to a major division into a [music] central core, from which species disperse into surrounding areas.

[00:01:47]Of course, this isn't always a good decision, and sometimes [music] these migrations end in the extinction of the new population.

[00:01:56]However, these cores [music] remain areas that provide optimal conditions for species development and diversification.

[00:02:05]They are, in a sense, oases [music] of life.

[00:02:09]Life on Earth, while remarkably diverse, appears [music] to follow one common principle that scientists have recognized for hundreds of years.

[00:02:20]Although [music] they cover only 30% of the Earth's surface, their diversity is higher [music] than that of the remaining 70%.

[00:02:30]Knowing exactly what's happening and what mechanisms may be driving this phenomenon, scientists will now aim to identify [music] factors affecting biodiversity in the context of global change.

[00:02:45]>> [music] >> This isn't the first time this has happened, as Earth has experienced [music] climate fluctuations many times before. Although the current one seems particularly drastic.

[00:02:56]>> [music] >> The very idea of species dispersal has guided researchers for centuries, [music] but only in light of recent findings has it been possible to properly document this phenomenon.

[00:03:10]This is all the more important >> [music] >> as we are talking about a potential breakthrough in nature conservation and predicting its [music] response to global changes that could shake ecosystems worldwide. [music] >> [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music]