How is it I ended up spending 20 minutes trying to explain the above phrase to my Princess Mafia? We got on the topic because I fell for the temptation of revisiting the chicken and egg question that Jung had raised the other day. I'm not sure if I succeeded in explaining it, and what I took for looks of fascination could very well have been a simple hope that I would become so obsessed with trying to explain evolution and biogenetics that I would forget to conduct a "regular" class with them.
One lesson I've been learning lately: I have to be careful differentiating between deference and interest, here.