bio

Holobiont

A body seen for what it really is: not a lone individual but a coalition of a host together with all the symbiotic organisms living in and on it. You are a holobiont — human plus trillions of microbes plus the mitochondria that were once bacteria. The concept turns the question 'what is this organism' into 'who is in this coalition', and makes a body rewritten by symbiosis far easier to imagine.