Tuesday, October 12, 2004

Comment: Are we a SINGLE organism?

Wow, never thought of that, but we could actually be seen as an "aggregate" of organisms, instead of simplly one organism. Why? Because we have all sorts of bacteria, fungi and other organisms living in our body. And the strange part is that we only have several trillion human cells in our body, while the bacteria cells in our body has a population of more than 100 trillion cells - many times more than human cells. So we really should inclulde the other residents when we mention a "human body". Although revolutionary, but it's a quite simple thought. Neat, isn't it? Now, again, why we haven't thought about that before?

See: Wired News: People Are Human-Bacteria Hybrid
And hold your chin tight--in case you're so surprised that it falls to the ground.

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