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Ugly bags of mostly bacteria

posted by Zed on November 7 2004 14:54

We are not alone:

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 cells, bacteria, fungi and viruses.

This is one reason I find the resurrect (say) dinosaurs from DNA scenario unlikely. ‘cause I suspect they had their own complex interdependencies with creatures with their own DNA.

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