Any inheritable traits from 'lower forms of life' a là evolution would need to be passed via reproduction, by definition. So parents are literally definitely involved in the process. Though consciousness is an emergent property of the brain, of course.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
