The Human Body Is a Complex Organism

The human body is an extraordinarily complex organism. How would you assess the share of the body and its functions that we understand and the share that we don't really yet understand? Huh? That's a tough one. Ah, weve made a lot of headway. But to put a number on it, i would say maybe 30 %, forty percent that we don’t know. I ask the same question of some one else. My name's jeremy green. I'm a physician and a historian of medicine at johns hopkins. So what's s answer? There is a rumsfeldian answer of, you know, knowns. And there are also unknown