Dinesh

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Posted: 12 Jun 2013


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Robert Frost
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Your Inner Fish
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Neil Suubin


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Disused Graveyard

Disused Graveyard
The living come with grassy tread
To read the gravestones on the hill;
The graveyard draws the living still,
But never anymore the dead.
The verses in it say and say:
"The ones who living come today
To read the stones and go away
Tomorrow dead will come to stay."
So sure of death the marbles rhyme,
Yet can't help marking all the time
How no one dead will seem to come.
What is it men are shrinking from?
It would be easy to be clever
And tell the stones: Men hate to die
And have stopped dying now forever.
I think they would believe the lie.

"In a disused graveyard" - Robert Frost

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 Dinesh
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. . . . No sane paleontologist would ever claim that he or she had discovered “The Ancestor.” Think about it this way: What is the chance that while walking through any random cemetry on our planet I would discover an actual ancestor of mine? Diminishingly small. What I would discover is that all of the people buried in these cemeteries -- no matter whether that cemetery is in China, Botswana, or Italy -- are related to me to different degrees. I can find this out by looking at their DNA with many of the forensic techniques in use in crime labs today. I’d see that some of the denizens of the cemeteries are distantly related to me, others are related more closely. This tree would be a very powerful window into my past and my family history. It would also have practical application because I could use this tree to understand my predilection to get certain diseases and other facts of my biology. The same is true when we infer relationships among species. ~ Page 180
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