Natalie Angier

The womb may have nothing to do with the intellect of the woman who bears it, but it has everything to do with the brain of the fetus it bears

the Shiva approach to reproduction, the perpetual death and rebirth of the uterine lining, is cheaper than maintaining the uterus in fertile form would be

During the last three months of pregnancy, the growth of the fetal brain is so explosive that stoking it demands nearly three quarters of all the energy entering the baby through the umbilical cord. No