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We are in the midst of a paradigm change in biology: animals and plants can no longer be considered individuals, but rather holobionts, each of which is an independent biological entity and an independent level of selection in evolution.

As the area of light increases, so does the circumference of darkness.

—Albert Einstein

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    Eugene Rosenberg

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Rosenberg, E., Zilber-Rosenberg, I. (2013). Epilogue. In: The Hologenome Concept: Human, Animal and Plant Microbiota. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04241-1_11

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