The revolution in molecular technologies has created a revolution in our perception of the living world. It is life, but not as we knew it. Symbiosis, once thought the exception to the rules of life, is now recognized as a signature of life, including its development and evolution. We function, develop, and possibly evolve as consortia. Developmental plasticity has transformed our ways of relating the genome to both the organism and its environment, showing that the environment can instruct, as well as select, phenotypes. Environmentally induced modifications of the genome (epialleles) can be...