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I Am Not the Zygote I Came from because a Different Singleton Could Have Come from It

2022-07-01

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Many people believe that human beings begin to exist with the emergence of the 1-cell zygote at fertilization. I present a novel argument against this belief, one based on recently discovered facts about human embryo development. I first argue that a human zygote is developmentally plastic: A zygote that naturally develops into a singleton (i.e., develops into exactly one infant/adult without twinning) might have...

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Literature Corpus work: 8b9833da-f432-5623-9260-6e4a169dfd75
DOI: 10.1215/00318108-9743822

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