What is an Individual?

The Earth is full of different forms of individuality, from colonies of insects that function as one organism, to the many microbes that can switch between individual and collective lifestyles. These unconventional forms of individuality may not seem to apply to humans, but humans are also dynamic ecosystems of human and bacterial cells working together. And if all your matter changes, what is it that makes you still you?

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Click on the posters below for an introduction to these juicy questions.

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