We found 2 episodes of Zombified: Your Source for Fresh Brains with the tag “pregnancy”.
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Microchimeric mombie: Amy Boddy
February 25th, 2020 | Season 2 | 1 hr 1 min
babies, microchimerism, pregnancy
While you were in the womb, cells from your mom took up residence inside you. And cells from your baby body transferred to your mom as well, settling down in her tissues and organs. In this episode we talk with evolutionary biologist Amy Boddy about this phenomenon - called maternal-fetal microchimerism - and what it means for our understanding of who we are. If you've had a baby (or a few babies), cells from those babies may be inside your body and brain right now, proliferating and interacting with the rest of you. What are they doing and why? Listen and find out!
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Placental hijacking: David Haig
February 14th, 2020 | Season 2 | 57 mins 56 secs
placenta, pregnancy, sharks
Did you know that genes from your mom and genes from your dad battled it out inside you (and in your placenta) while you were in the womb? In this episode, Harvard evolutionary biologist, David Haig, explains where babies come from and how they hijack their parents to take care of them. From the intricate details of shark pregnancy to the parenting strategies of plants, David shares both curious sex facts and disturbing strategies of reproduction across the tree of life. And you'll learn more than you wanted to know about the most wonderful and creepy organ of all, the placenta.