The article offers the author's perspective on the essay "The Power of the Modal Bacter, or Why the Tail Can't Wag the Dog" by American paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould which shows that by any reasonable criteria, bacteria are and always been the dominant forms of life on earth. According to the author, Gould depicts the frequency distribution for the complexity of life with the bacterial mode. It mentions the description by Nathan Cobb, the father of nematology, on the topic.