BIOL 1440 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Speciesism, Geocentric Model, Existentialism
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Humans are only one part of the tree so much more than just ourselves! If you think about it, humans have not been around the longest. The world wasn"t made for us, we were made for the world. -john green. Realize that everything connects to everything else. -leonardo da. A lot of cooperation within animals/among species. Demodex little organisms that live in your eyelash/eyebrow follicles and come out at night to clean the area. Microbes within us all help protect against pathogens, interacts with outside environment, degrades nutrients, and modify nutrients. All species are made of the same stuff all interacting and fitting together. The theory that infectious agents, symbiotic microorganisms, and parasites are normal stimulants for the maturation of the immune system toward a balanced immune response. The theory predicts that lack of such stimulation leads to allergies and autoimmune diseases, arthritis, etc. All examples of our immune system going haywire and attacking itself.
