How Much Of You Is ACTUALLY Alive?

↓↓↓ More info and sources below ↓↓↓ You’re alive right now… at least I’m pretty sure you are. But you’re not TOTALLY alive. Bits of you are always breaking down, being thrown out, and being replaced. Even right now, parts of you are dying. Some of your cells even died before you were born. And some...

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4. I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong (4.1/5) - View on Amazon
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