Wired News: People Are Human-Bacteria Hybrid: "Most of the cells in your body are not your own, nor are they even human. They are bacterial. From the invisible strands of fungi waiting to sprout between our toes, to the kilogram of bacterial matter in our guts, we are best viewed as walking 'superorganisms,' highly complex conglomerations of human, fungal, bacterial and viral cells."
Evolution isn't just 'nature, red in tooth and claw' it's also symbiosis -and this article puts the case for co-operation being part of nature too. Ever since I read
The Symbiotic Planet: A New Look at... I've felt that we need to take this pardigm on board too.
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