Now, the reason, I think, that this is the case is that human beings assemble themselves and form a kind of superorganism. 我认为,其原因就在于人类可以组织在一起组成一个超级生物体。
"We should think of each host and its parasites as a superorganism with the respective genomes yoked into a chimera of sorts," he wrote in Science in2000. 他在2000年发表了他的观点:“我们应该将每一个宿主和他的寄生物看作是一种超个体,将他们各自的基因组结合而成的一类嵌合体”。
The gut microbiota and host select each other to form a superorganism. 肠道微生物与宿主之间相互选择,构成了一个相对稳定的超有机体。
Superorganism was a buzz word among biologists in the1920s. 20世纪20年代,超有机体在生物学家眼里可是个时髦词。