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The Error of the Evolution
of Species

The
The Caucasus Central and Philippines
southern
California The Mediterranean China
Flower Fields Basin
The Caribbean India
Tanzania Burma Polynesia
Eastern strip Micronesia
Mesoamerica
Brazil of Kenya
Polynesia West African West Ghats
Micronesia forests and Sri Lanka
West Ecuador Sundaland New
Wallacea Caledonia
Fertile Karoo Madagascar
Brazil
Central Chile Atlantic Southwestern
forests Cape Flower
Fields Australia
New
Zealand
Terrestrial biodiversity is found in only 1.4% of the planet's land mass. Locales
that are rich in such diversity are at the same time home to rapidly growing
human societies.
No matter how much large, attractive animals like birds,
reptiles and mammals attract notice, insects are actually the
group with the greatest diversity. According to contempo-
rary findings, insects represent over two-thirds of the total

number of species on Earth. 15 Approximately 1 million
species belonging to this group have been named and de-
scribed so far. 16
As research deepens, brand- new scientific discoveries
are made, and new plants, animals, insects and marine life
forms are discovered every year. Every new study sheds
light on one unknown aspect of the world's wealth of vari-
ety. Therefore, the numbers and proportions in the above
table will change over time.

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