Is another human living inside you?
once upon a time, your origins were easy to understand Your dad met your mum, they had some fun and from a tiny fertilised egg you emerged kicking and screaming into the world You are half your mum half your dad - and loooo yoursell
Except that simple tale has now become a lot more complicated Besides your genes from parents you are a mosaic of viruses bacteria and potentially, other humans Indeed, it wou are a twin wou
are particularly likely to be carrying bits of yout subling within your body and brain stranger sull. they may be influencing how you act
superorganisms," says Peter kramerat the university of paqua A very large number of different human and non-human individuals are all incessantly struggling inside us for control together with Paola Bressan, he recently wrote a paper in the ournal Perspectives in Psychological science, calling for psychologists and psychiatrists to appreciate the ways this may influence our behaviour
That may sound alarming, but it has long been known that our bodies are really a mishmash of many different organisms Microbes in your gut can produce neurotransmitters that atter your mood; some scientists have even proposed that the microbes may sway your appetite, so that you crave their favourite food an infection of a parasite called Toxoplasma gondii, meanwhile, might just lead you to your death in nature the microbe warps rats' brains so that they are attracted to cats which will then otter a cosy home for it to reproduce But humans can be infected and subjected to the same and of mind control too the microbe seems to make someone risky, and Increases the chance they will suffer from schizophrenia or suicidal depression. Currently, around third of British meat carries this parasite, for instance-despite the fact an infection could
contribute to these mental illnesses "we should stop this," says Kramer
Infiltrating siblings
In this light, it becomes clear that our actions are not entirely our own it's enough to make you question your sense of identity, but the idea of infiltration becomes even more eerie when you
realise that your brain has not just been invaded by tiny microbes - but also by other human beings.
The most visible example might be a case of conjoined twins sharing a brain, says Kramer, but *Eular twins could have shared organs without realising it. During early development, cells cas
Passed between twins or triplets. Once considered a rare occurrence, we now know it is SL - - - "P"singly common. Around 8% of non-identical twins and 21% of triplets, for example, have
Is another human living inside you?once upon a time, your origins were easy to understand Your dad met your mum, they had some fun and from a tiny fertilised egg you emerged kicking and screaming into the world You are half your mum half your dad - and loooo yoursellExcept that simple tale has now become a lot more complicated Besides your genes from parents you are a mosaic of viruses bacteria and potentially, other humans Indeed, it wou are a twin wouare particularly likely to be carrying bits of yout subling within your body and brain stranger sull. they may be influencing how you actsuperorganisms," says Peter kramerat the university of paqua A very large number of different human and non-human individuals are all incessantly struggling inside us for control together with Paola Bressan, he recently wrote a paper in the ournal Perspectives in Psychological science, calling for psychologists and psychiatrists to appreciate the ways this may influence our behaviourThat may sound alarming, but it has long been known that our bodies are really a mishmash of many different organisms Microbes in your gut can produce neurotransmitters that atter your mood; some scientists have even proposed that the microbes may sway your appetite, so that you crave their favourite food an infection of a parasite called Toxoplasma gondii, meanwhile, might just lead you to your death in nature the microbe warps rats' brains so that they are attracted to cats which will then otter a cosy home for it to reproduce But humans can be infected and subjected to the same and of mind control too the microbe seems to make someone risky, and Increases the chance they will suffer from schizophrenia or suicidal depression. Currently, around third of British meat carries this parasite, for instance-despite the fact an infection couldcontribute to these mental illnesses "we should stop this," says KramerInfiltrating siblingsIn this light, it becomes clear that our actions are not entirely our own it's enough to make you question your sense of identity, but the idea of infiltration becomes even more eerie when yourealise that your brain has not just been invaded by tiny microbes - but also by other human beings.The most visible example might be a case of conjoined twins sharing a brain, says Kramer, but *Eular twins could have shared organs without realising it. During early development, cells casPassed between twins or triplets. Once considered a rare occurrence, we now know it is SL - - - "P"singly common. Around 8% of non-identical twins and 21% of triplets, for example, have
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