Wednesday, May 02, 2018


We've actually had nice sunny weather the past few days, but prior to that, Georgia's spring has been unusually cool and wet.  It rained almost every day last week.  Here's a snail from last week eating the moss growing on my front porch bannister (at least that's what I think it's doing - there's really no telling with those things).

That snail and I are not that different, in more ways than there's no telling what either one of us are doing at any given moment,  Snails and humans both descended from a common ancestor that lived about 600 million years ago, and humans share about 70% of their DNA with snails and slugs.  To put that another way, it's only 30% of the DNA that distinguishes George Clooney from that snail.  

Chimps share approximately 98% of their DNA with us.  Bananas share 50%.  

Sort of reminds you of how we're all interdependent, doesn't it?

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