How does a tiny acorn become the mighty oak tree?
Hint: it’s not what you think.
Sure, the DNA in the seed has something to do with the tree’s final shape.
But DNA is only part of the story. DNA doesn’t provide water to the seed. DNA doesn’t provide nutrients and sunlight.
Yet the water, soil and sunlight of the environment aren’t even the whole story.
In order to grow the oak tree needs the gravity of the Earth, the gravity of the Sun, the pull of the Moon. The necessary factors become subtler but nonetheless essential the farther away you back the lens from the tree…
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