Fiction and nonfiction by Fletcher Kovich
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How Our Body's Evolution was guided by Our Abdominal Organs (The Intelligence behind Evolution)
The above article is published in the Insights of Anthropology journal
by Fletcher Kovich
ABSTRACT
A current theory is that each creature's evolution may have been determined by random variations in its genes, combined with natural selection, and perhaps some other unknown influence. In contrast, this article argues that a creature's senses, the shape of its body, and whatever thoughts or emotions it now has may have all evolved in response to information from its own abdominal organs.
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27 Nov 2020
Further reading
Further details of the author's acupuncture research project.
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