How did intelligent life got so advanced on land (humans) than in the oceans considering how the ocean is the greater part of the world and has much more diversity in it?
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The ocean’s size is misleading. Large proportions of all the oceans can technically be classified as deserts. This sounds crazy, but one important meaning of “desert” isn’t to do with being arid, but rather density of biomatter. In much of the ocean not near to continents or islands, the water contains very little life-sustaining nutrients and a few meters down, very little energy.
[80% of Earth’s known species](https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/07/why-are-there-so-many-more-species-on-land-than-in-the-sea/533247/) live on land (and this is not likely due to differences in exploration).
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