Description
Start on the top right, with sperm competition leading to fertilization. The zygote, at first embedded in the uterine lining, grows and eventually develops freedom. The world "hands" the organism 0's and 1's, even from the womb, representing the informational entropy of a given series of environmental measurements - the prognosticators, predictors, and patterns of electromagnetic radiation, pH, temperature, blood glucose, emotional satisfaction, etc, etc, etc...
Having a philosophically-equal say in the protein signalling cascades that produce cellular physiology are the maternal effects (triangle and circle obtained from Mommy [who may have gotten it from her Mommy {who may have gotten it…
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