He tells us how in the 1970s a scientist called Carl Woese identified a new kingdom of living things that he called archaea– meaning ancient ones.

在20世纪70年代，一位名叫卡尔·乌斯的科学家是如何发现古生菌这一新生物王国的，archaea是指古代的生物。

Hennigian cladification, and controversial interpretations of the genome of Methanobacterium thermoautrophicum, among rather a lot else, but essentially he argues that Woese's arrangement unbalances the tree of life.

什么亨宁进化枝呀，什么对嗜热碱甲烷杆菌的基因组有争议的解释呀，但从根本上说，他信为沃斯的安排使生命树失去一平衡。

Indeed, according to Woese, if you totaled up all the biomass of the planet, every living thing, plants included-microbes would account for at least 80 percent of all there is, perhaps more.

据沃斯说，即使你把植物的全部生物量加起来——包括植物在内的每一生物，微生物至少要占总数的80%，也许还多。

Singlehandedly Woese had discovered an unsuspected division of life, so fundamental that it stood above the level of kingdom at the apogee of the Universal Tree of Life, as it is rather reverentially known.

沃斯独自一人发现了一种未知的基本生命种类。它高于“界”的层面，位于被相当尊敬地称之为世界生命之巅的地方。