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Humans as superorganisms: how microbes, viruses, imprinted genes, and other selfish entities shape our behavior

2021-04-13

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<p>Psychologists and psychiatrists tend to be little aware that (a) microbes in our brains and guts are capable of altering our behavior; (b) viral DNA that was incorporated into our DNA millions of years ago is implicated in mental disorders; (c) many of us carry the cells of another human in our brains; and (d) under the regulation of viruslike elements, the paternally inherited and maternally inherited copies o...

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Literature Corpus work: 9dec973d-5a3a-5936-accd-8a7d59ad1b0a
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/pja8w

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