2026-09-16
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Today we're discussing one of my favourite examples of evolutionary biology and it's not an insect, it's a human baby.
It's a human baby.
And specifically the drama, the absolute drama that occurs at the birth of a baby.
That is the right way to put it.
I can confirm that the late stages of pregnancy and the whole business of labour is wild.
Well, I like the idea that there's a battle.
Between the fetus and the mother over nutrition, but also over when to come out, when to get out.
And it's almost shocking, isn't it, to describe that relationship between mother and baby as a battle.
But evolutionarily speaking, that's what it is.
Well, they call it the maternal-fetal conflict.
But a new discovery that we're going to get into shows that the mother transfers mitochondria.