FRAGMENT FROM NATURE meditates for three weekends on the sea change in thinking that allows for all creatures to be mosaic hybrids, holobionts. The issue of what is an individual is central to this question. This will be followed by a fairly lengthy consideration of symbiotic organisms that are vertically inherited as if part of the host body. The two contemplations together represent a veritable paradigm shift in life science thinking since 1970.
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022