The Mother Code: My Story of Love, Loss, and the Myths That Shape Us

The jerky movements twisted and contorted his body into unnatural shapes. The man who might be having a seizure or be mentally ill or who might suddenly lunge. David Haig’s research in evolutionary biology at Harvard has revealed that there’s a real-life tug-of-war between a fetus and the mother. Despite the fact that the copies are exactly the same, one cell will become a brain cell, and another a blood cell, and so on.