Tanatomicrobiome: death after life, life after death

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  • Juan Carlos Codina Escobar

Keywords:

Microbiome, corpses, forensic

Abstract

Is there life after death? Obviously yes, there is. It is just the well known process of ecological succession that occurs after the organism death. This ending is the start of a new kind of life in which the basic components, atoms and molecules, spread and reorganize in new life forms. A new kind of science is rising from the study of these processes, with atonishing applications.

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2016-03-19

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Tanatomicrobiome: death after life, life after death. (2016). Encuentros En La Biología, 9(157), 76-78. https://revistas.uma.es/index.php/enbio/article/view/17975