You are a holobiont, I am a holobiont, we are all holobionts.
"Holobiont" means, literally, "whole living creature." It is a concept known in biology at least from the 1930s, but that was rediscovered and diffused by Lynn Margulis in the 1990s, to emphasize how life is more than all a question of collaboration. Everything in life is an exchange of matter, energy, or information: holobionts are the building blocks of everything in the ecosystem, and also of human-made systems: families, companies, associations, markets, and more. The concept of holobiont gives us a new paradigm to rebuild our relationship with the ecosystem and with our fellow human beings.
Onward, fellow holobionts!
Hello again Ugo. Is Bio Technology (genes) meets IT Technology (memes) already one of your posts ? And a link to the right blog. please and thanks in advance. ArtDeco.
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