Persona

Shadow is a term coined by Carl Jung to [TODO]. The neuromythography interpretation of Persona is that it is primarily the left hemisphere of the brain.

See also: Shadow

phenotype

An evolutionary biology term referring to any sort of physical or behavioral trait that is presumed to be the result of an expression of an assumed genotype. Evolutionary biologists reason with genotypes and phenotypes, positing that they must exist even though the revelation of the actual mechanics of genetics has greatly complicated the simple Darwinian paradigm.

Phenotypes get very squirrelly when we get to evolutionary psychology, for the same reason that psychology has a replication crisis.

phylogenic

See phylogeny

phylogeny

The inferencing of evolutionary relationships between species based on morphology or DNA commonalities.

polygenic

An expressed trait that is controlled by a multiple genes, i.e. a gene network. Contrast with monogenic.

The problem with gene networks is they greatly complicate the traditional Darwinian view of evolutionary progress through random mutation-and-selection. Random mutation , but surely there is clearly some kind of mathematical space that is being ‘explored’ as organisms radiate into ecosystem niches. We can also see that there is a relatively fixed bauplan that governs eukaryotes that was set hundreds of millions of years ago. These early evolutionary choices constrained the possible genetic spaces to be explored over the course of evolution.

Acknowledging this does not open up a space for intelligent design flat-earthers. It does open up a space for a Spinozan creator whose signatures we see in mathematics and its implementation in biology.

prisca theologica

Prisca theologia (“ancient theology”) is the doctrine that asserts that a single, true theology exists, which threads through all religions, and which was anciently given by God to man.

Hermeticism was thought to be one of the main examples of the prisca theologia.

See Wikipedia.