Stan Carey<p>"Animals can no longer be considered individuals in any sense of classical biology: anatomical, developmental, physiological, immunological, genetic, or evolutionary." </p><p>Your ego-dissolving read for today is Gilbert et al. 2012, "A Symbiotic View of Life: We Have Never Been Individuals" <br><a href="https://blogs.bu.edu/ait/files/2012/12/SymbioticViewQRB.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blogs.bu.edu/ait/files/2012/12</span><span class="invisible">/SymbioticViewQRB.pdf</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/biology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>biology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>evolution</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/microbiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>microbiology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/symbiosis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>symbiosis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/identity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>identity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/zoology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>zoology</span></a></p>