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bacteria that live in our guts tend to trade genes with other gut bugs. Bacteria of the gums, likewise. Of the vagina, likewise. Skin bacteria, likewise. These gene transfers mainly happen at short spatial distances, even when the phylogenetic distance (between two very different bacterial lineages) is great.
The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
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