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Re:Fungi Lurk Inside Cancers–and Might Speed Their Growth by unity1001 on Saturday October 08, 2022 @02:47PM (#33134848)
> Sometimes I wonder if we're just giant machines built by microorganisms

I believe that we were well-organized colonies of bacteria was proven long time ago.

We are literally a unified collective of cells.

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Re:Fungi Lurk Inside Cancers–and Might Speed Their Growth by astrange on Saturday October 08, 2022 @02:56PM (#33134932)
Prokaryotes, not bacteria.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-domain_system

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Re:Fungi Lurk Inside Cancers–and Might Speed Their Growth by unity1001 on Saturday October 08, 2022 @03:12PM (#33135074)
Evaluates to the same concept of we being collectives.
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Re:Fungi Lurk Inside Cancers–and Might Speed Their Growth by lanstin on Sunday October 09, 2022 @02:15AM (#33138659)
Wow that was awesome to read. Biology keeps blowing its old theories out of the water. All of the excitement about rapid genome sequencing is being borne out, even tho you don’t read about bioinformatics so much. So bacteria are an offshoot from our lineage. We really are learning a lot so quickly.
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