{"id":61209,"date":"2024-11-13T09:43:53","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T08:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=61209"},"modified":"2024-11-14T13:05:16","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T12:05:16","slug":"communication-is-the-foundation-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/communication-is-the-foundation-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Communication Is the Foundation of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"Microbes were on Earth for three billion years before any other living creature appeared. As Florianne Koechlin puts it, they invented almost everything that constitutes life. Microbes connect cells, internal metabolism, soil with plants, plants with animals, and everything with us.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlants choose which microbes they take into their root area and which they don't. They keep harmful pathogens out and let others in. They do all this using \u201caromas\u201d to communicate with their soil microbiome. Microbes also communicate with each other. About a third of all of a bacterium's genes are there for communication. So, even for the smallest creatures, communication is the foundation of life. Beneath our superficial differences, \u201cWe are all of us walking communities of bacteria. The world shi<div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\">Would you like to carry on reading? <a href=\"\/en\/subscribe\/\">Get to know us for 1.-<\/a>. If you are already a subscriber, <a href=\"#\" class=\"modal-tr\" data-type=\"latl\">please log-in<\/a> to continue reading.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microbes were on Earth for three billion years before any other living creature appeared. As Florianne Koechlin puts it, they invented almost everything that constitutes life. Microbes connect cells, internal metabolism, soil with plants, plants with animals, and everything with us. Plants choose which microbes they take into their root area and which they don&#8217;t. They keep harmful pathogens out and let others in. They do all this using \u201caromas\u201d to communicate with their soil microbiome. Microbes also communicate with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20676,"featured_media":61380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8788,8825],"tags":[11577,11579,8814],"class_list":["post-61209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-essay-en","category-natural-sciences","tag-ausgabe-45-2024-en","tag-english-issue-46-2024","tag-musings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20676"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}