Very interesting. This has implications far across the spectrum of reality...not just in understanding human health, but getting a correct picture regarding working symbiosis of multiple species, co-evolution, and long-term space travel and habitation.
Does the type of bacteria species change as we age?
How about as we move through one culture to the next?
And what does this do to the idea of sterile environments?
When a collection of microbes of varying species evolve together, at which point do they start to become a single unit? Are there phases for that? Are these stomach digestors employed by us in a kind of phase of evolutionary symbiosis?
For me, this further enforces that idea that long-term sedentary off-world lifesyles must include sizable slices of earth ecosystems, for the sake of human health and sustainability. Imagine a spacecraft which would move from world to world in our solar system, or a space station with a multi-generational lifespan, with nature intertwined as a functioning system: to produce oxygen, filter carbon dioxide, and to make stable to human element. We evolved in it, so to remove the human from nature would produce serious health issues.
Does the type of bacteria species change as we age?
How about as we move through one culture to the next?
And what does this do to the idea of sterile environments?
When a collection of microbes of varying species evolve together, at which point do they start to become a single unit? Are there phases for that? Are these stomach digestors employed by us in a kind of phase of evolutionary symbiosis?
For me, this further enforces that idea that long-term sedentary off-world lifesyles must include sizable slices of earth ecosystems, for the sake of human health and sustainability. Imagine a spacecraft which would move from world to world in our solar system, or a space station with a multi-generational lifespan, with nature intertwined as a functioning system: to produce oxygen, filter carbon dioxide, and to make stable to human element. We evolved in it, so to remove the human from nature would produce serious health issues.
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