«There must have been regional climate and chemical conditions that
varied in time and space,» he says, adding that this would occur as the tilt
of Mars's spin axis changed
over tens of thousands of years, a wobble caused by the lack
of a massive moon to stabilise the planet.
The microbiota, which evolved
over tens of thousands of years alongside their human hosts, constitutes a complex and diverse community whose exact composition
varies from person to person.