The coming into being is called Morphogenesis, from Greek words morphe, form, and genesis, coming into being.
An understanding of morphogenesis is essential for a deeper comprehension of the nature of life, but currently only very little is understood about it.
Any satisfactory theory of morphogenesis has to take into account the fact that all biological forms have evolved. Morphogenesis is rooted in ancestral history.
The conventional explanation of the evolutionary basis of morphogenesis is in terms of the inheritance of chemical genes.
The hypothesis of Formative Causation takes a broader view of heridity, and sees the inheritance of organic form - including the forms of molecules themselves - in terms of the inheritance of organizing fields that contain a kind of inbuilt memory. Living organisms inherit not only genes but also habits of development and behaviour from past members of their own species, and also from the long series of ancestral species from which their species has arisen.
(Rupert Sheldrake - The presence of the past)
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