nine of every ten cells in our bodies belong not to us, but to these microbial species {most of them residents of our gut}, and that 99 percent of the DNA we're carrying around belongs to those microbes. Some scientists, trained in evolutionary biology, began looking at the human individual in a humbling new light: as a kind of superorganism, a community of several hundred coevolved and interdependent species."
( Michael Pollan )
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