Another random musing

It is a common expression that people hear on the streets these days, "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny". Apparently back in my embryo days I moved from fish-like to bird-like etc etc eventually getting to human-like, i.e. reliving the evolutionary trail from potato through to man, and going back the other way, paedomorphosis, is when a descendant has juvenile traits of the ancestor, like humans resembling a juvenile ape... What has this got to do with anything? I came to realise that during any given day I can be having a paedomorphic transformation into a juvenile or recapitulating into the form of an ancestor depending on how much sleep I have had. When I am up at some goddam hour of the morning my lizard-brain usually is doing all kinds of fishy thinking, the juvenile usually does not come out until I am all well rested. But during the day I can have lizard and baby moments, it is that whole circles within circles thing... like Fortuna's wheel in Boethius and The Confederency of Dunces. Change luck into recapitulation and paedomorphosis, and a person can find themself de- or re- evolving in days, weeks and years etc (eventually everyone looks like an adult chimpanzee, all wrinkled with hairs coming out of their ears). I believe if I stay up for five nights running by the fifth night I will have the same thinking capacity as a turnip... hyuk hyuk hyuk