¶ Epigenetic Landscape
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All creatures, as with any systems including inanimate systems, give off their energies and thereby alter the environment by doing so. Living creatures alter the environment a little more as they give off more energies; they alter it much more than the inanimates. The altered environment requires alternation of the patterning of the living creatures. There is the ‘epigenetic landscape,’ the interplay of living creatures altering an environment and of an environment altering the creatures. This goes on and on and it is what we mean by evolution. It is inexorable and irreversible. Many creatures alter the environment in nondiscrete ways. Other creatures alter it in discrete and preferred patterns; as, for instance, the bird’s nest.
