What are you?
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Are you your body? And if so, how exactly does this work? Kurzgesagt takes on the challenge of asking how many of those cells can you take away before you stop being you? And does that question even make sense?
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The operating system of life - George Zaidan and Charles Morton
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Cell biology - Nature
History of biology: cell theory and cell structure - Biology Reference
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