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by basetop 2597 days ago
Only 10% of you at the cellular level is you. The 90% of you at the cellular level is bacteria.

https://bigthink.com/amped/humans-10-human-and-90-bacterial

3 comments

In terms of cell count, yes. Not in terms of weight, or computation. :)
You took the biological meaning. I was wondering if anyone would take 'cellular' to mean, well, people on their phones!
the ratio is more like 3:3.8 cell-count-wise and 400:1 mass-wise [-0.2333]

[-0.23333] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4991899/