The lowest form of life
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What does 'the lowest form of life' mean?
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Literally, it means the simplest, least-evolved form of life, eg some kind of microbe. Figuratively, if we say to someone 'You are the lowest form of life', it's very insulting. Clive
- Literally, it means the simplest, least-evolved form of life, eg some kind of microbe.
- Figuratively, if we say to someone 'You are the lowest form of life', it's very insulting.
- Clive
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Literally, it means the simplest, least-evolved form of life, eg some kind of microbe.
Figuratively, if we say to someone 'You are the lowest form of life', it's very insulting.
Clive
0There is disagreement about that. Some think that viruses are alive, and others think they are not. For my money, they have information coded in replicating nucleic acids, and that makes them alive. But they have nothing like volition, so you can't call them "lowest". They are perhaps the most primitive, but lowness is more than that. It implies brutishness, disgustingness, contemptibility—evi
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