Tree of life created with bacterial cultures

Recent
microbiological research has shown that thinking of plants and animals,
including humans, as autonomous individuals is a serious
over-simplification.

A series of groundbreaking studies have revealed that what we have
always thought of as individuals are actually "biomolecular networks"
that consist of visible hosts plus millions of invisible microbes
that have a significant effect on how the host develops, the diseases
it catches, how it behaves and possibly even its social interactions.





Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2015-08-pronoun-obsolete.html#jCp

Don't look now, but the pronoun "I" is becoming obsolete

Recent microbiological research has shown that thinking of plants and animals, including humans, as autonomous individuals is a serious over-simplification. A series of groundbreaking studies have revealed that what we have always thought of as individuals are actually "biomolecular networks" that consist of visible hosts plus millions of invisible microbes that have a significant effect on how the host develops, the diseases it catches, how it behaves and possibly even its social interactions.

Read more:
The pronoun 'I' is becoming obsolete

Source: PHYS org
Image credits: Robert Brucker / Harvard University