Phylogenic Entanglement

2022  30”h, 22”W  collage

With more accurate observational techniques available to scientists – more discoveries abound that demonstrate how biological and physical states of being are less delineated and more entangled than previously hypothesized. For example; physicists tell us that particles are entangled, the hemispheres of the human brain are interconnected by way of neurons “firing”, and as this collage illustrates, the diagram and metaphor of tree branches representing species are inaccurate.

The misleading cladogram (diagrams that depict the relationships between different groups of taxa called “clades”) envisioned by Darwin did not comprehend microbial entities that enter plant and animal genomes via horizontal gene transfer and account for part of all biological and botanical inheritance.  Tangled branches must reconverge.

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