Bacteria again
Here is another article about how much bacteria we have in our bodies. It's pretty awesome.
I am really enjoying the idea of a person not really being a discrete, self-contained entity, but rather a collection of many man other critters that do so much of the work that we previously ascribed to our bodily systems. I find it amazing--but not surprising--that many of our genes aren't from people at all. Cool. Greg Bear wrote a bunch of books about this sort of thing (Blood music, Darwin's Radio, and some others). They are nice reads.
I am really enjoying the idea of a person not really being a discrete, self-contained entity, but rather a collection of many man other critters that do so much of the work that we previously ascribed to our bodily systems. I find it amazing--but not surprising--that many of our genes aren't from people at all. Cool. Greg Bear wrote a bunch of books about this sort of thing (Blood music, Darwin's Radio, and some others). They are nice reads.