Talk:Human Physiology/Pregnancy and birth

Process of Fertilization
I would like to suggest including at least a summarized version of the process of fertilization. Most people are used to hearing about the epigenetic processes involved in mitosis and meiosis. However, it's seems rare to find an explanation of how chromosomes are recombined rather than split. I feel that it should be somewhat easy to include a satisfying explanation of this process without adding too much volume to the article. However, I'm not exactly confident enough in my writing capabilities to accomplish this.

I and many others have contributed information on this subject in the article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_fertilization. Please see for references. It would be amazing for information on this project to be readily available and/or common knowledge. Normally, when I see this process referred to, I see wordings such as, "The male and female chromosomes are then recombined to form a new genome." et. al. I feel that even a 3 - 7 sentence expansion on this could add a lot of robustness. Of course, I wouldn't expect a complete explanation of every protein and metabolic pathway involved, but a brief discussion of how the two haploid genomes are recombined would make a great, yet short addition.

Thank you, anyone, for your consideration on this matter.