• DOI:10.1177/1745691615583131
Corpus ID: 12954636

Humans as Superorganisms

@article{Kramer2015HumansAS,
  title={Humans as Superorganisms},
  author={P. Kramer and P. Bressan},
  journal={Perspectives on Psychological Science},
  year={2015},
  volume={10},
  pages={464 - 481}
}

P. Kramer, P. Bressan

Published 2015

Biology, Medicine

Perspectives on Psychological Science

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 of some genes compete for domination in the offspring, on whom they have opposite… CONTINUE READING

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