My results said something about “avoid oxygen”. I’d a bit worried.
weylguysays
“That will be $250, please.”
blfsays
A certain egg & cress sandwich (with no mayo) has a lot to answer for!
davidnanglesays
Zoo = Family reunion
Arboretum = Family reunion
Butterfly pavilion = Family reunion
Open sewage treatment plant = Family reunion
anchorsays
And if that isn’t sufficient to stir anyone’s sense of wonder, they’re barking up a dead tree
Crip Dyke, Right Reverend Feminist FuckToy of Death & Her Handmaidensays
I got the same results! We must be related!
Well… yes. Yes we are.
Ed Seedhousesays
Sometime recently I decided to learn how the ranks of cousins are decided. I won’t bore you with that, but I did see that by the rules of cousinship everyone alive today and everyone who ever lived before me and will live after me is my nth cousin n times removed, unless they are a parent or grandparent of mine or a sibling.
And since we share common ancestors with every being on the planet the rules generalize to them. Therefore we are formally some degree of cousin with pretty well all of them, and all who have ever lived.
So perhaps to every living being we meet we should say “hello cousin”.
It’s complicated, though, for us eukaryotes. We come by our descent from good ol’ LCA via at least two separate paths (not to mention all those retroviruses). So it’s more than one unbroken lineage.
Rich Woodssays
This reminds me of the quote from (I think) Carl Sagan: “None of your forebears died young.”
We are lucky, lucky bastards.
What a Maroon, living up to the 'nymsays
We are all the products of a scandalously enormous string of incest.
mondsays
My fondness for bananas notwithstanding – I aint no monkey.
chigau (違う)says
Yes you are.
blfsays
Ook! Ook! Eeeeek! Ook ook!
Cuttlefishsays
Yeah, it’s old…
I am accident on accident
And chance on random chance
I’m the product of environment
And changing circumstance
The odds of my occurrence
Are incalculably small—
If you round off to the trillionth place
I don’t exist at all!
Every atom in my body
From an ancient star’s collapse;
I’m a long time in my making—
Several billion years, perhaps!
In a corner of infinity,
A cold and hostile place
On a tiny blue oasis
Set adrift in empty space
I’m a subset of the universe
That’s learned to look around—
And which cannot help but wonder
At the marvels I have found!
The descendent of bacteria,
Of annelids, of fish,
I’m a member of the primates,
Just an ape-man, if you wish
Through the engine of selection
Some would live and some would die—
“From so simple a beginning”
Just how fortunate am I!
And I pass along my molecules
And take my place in line
So some distant, future life form
Will have carbon that was mine
And perhaps my DNA as well—
Unlikely, though, my friend—
I have ridden quite a lucky streak,
And lucky streaks must end.
So it is, and so it must be
When so much depends on chance
But…
Since the music plays so briefly,
Can you blame me if I dance?
Oh! I didn’t, should I be worried?????
My results said something about “avoid oxygen”. I’d a bit worried.
“That will be $250, please.”
A certain egg & cress sandwich (with no mayo) has a lot to answer for!
Zoo = Family reunion
Arboretum = Family reunion
Butterfly pavilion = Family reunion
Open sewage treatment plant = Family reunion
And if that isn’t sufficient to stir anyone’s sense of wonder, they’re barking up a dead tree
Well… yes. Yes we are.
Sometime recently I decided to learn how the ranks of cousins are decided. I won’t bore you with that, but I did see that by the rules of cousinship everyone alive today and everyone who ever lived before me and will live after me is my nth cousin n times removed, unless they are a parent or grandparent of mine or a sibling.
And since we share common ancestors with every being on the planet the rules generalize to them. Therefore we are formally some degree of cousin with pretty well all of them, and all who have ever lived.
So perhaps to every living being we meet we should say “hello cousin”.
It’s complicated, though, for us eukaryotes. We come by our descent from good ol’ LCA via at least two separate paths (not to mention all those retroviruses). So it’s more than one unbroken lineage.
This reminds me of the quote from (I think) Carl Sagan: “None of your forebears died young.”
We are lucky, lucky bastards.
We are all the products of a scandalously enormous string of incest.
My fondness for bananas notwithstanding – I aint no monkey.
Yes you are.
Ook! Ook! Eeeeek! Ook ook!
Yeah, it’s old…
I am accident on accident
And chance on random chance
I’m the product of environment
And changing circumstance
The odds of my occurrence
Are incalculably small—
If you round off to the trillionth place
I don’t exist at all!
Every atom in my body
From an ancient star’s collapse;
I’m a long time in my making—
Several billion years, perhaps!
In a corner of infinity,
A cold and hostile place
On a tiny blue oasis
Set adrift in empty space
I’m a subset of the universe
That’s learned to look around—
And which cannot help but wonder
At the marvels I have found!
The descendent of bacteria,
Of annelids, of fish,
I’m a member of the primates,
Just an ape-man, if you wish
Through the engine of selection
Some would live and some would die—
“From so simple a beginning”
Just how fortunate am I!
And I pass along my molecules
And take my place in line
So some distant, future life form
Will have carbon that was mine
And perhaps my DNA as well—
Unlikely, though, my friend—
I have ridden quite a lucky streak,
And lucky streaks must end.
So it is, and so it must be
When so much depends on chance
But…
Since the music plays so briefly,
Can you blame me if I dance?
http://freethoughtblogs.com/cuttlefish/2012/01/23/an-atheist-is-a-man-who-believes-himself-to-be-an-accident/
Wouldn’t we be considered apes, not monkeys? I believe the commenter was being facetious.
@5: Isn’t it more like zoo=class reunion, butterfly pavillion=kingdom reunion?