Think of the human body as a microbial ecosystem

By Richard Brill

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Mar 02, 2012

~~<p>Normally we think of an ecosystem in reference to the environment in which we humans live.</p>
<p>From the perspective of a microscopic organism living inside us, however, the human body is the ecosystem and indeed the whole universe. Each microbe is perfectly adapted to live within the range of conditions that occurs in its particular internal organ or its location on the skin.</p>
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Normally we think of an ecosystem in reference to the environment in which we humans live.

From the perspective of a microscopic organism living inside us, however, the human body is the ecosystem and indeed the whole universe. Each microbe is perfectly adapted to live within the range of conditions that occurs in its particular internal organ or its location on the skin. Login for more...