Wednesday, July 08, 2009

Genetics

Mitochondrial Eve
Found it hard to believe
That she'd meet the Y-chromosome Adam.
She was right it turned out
For there can be no doubt
That her great × n granddaughter had him.

Via Pharyngula, Brian Kilmeade understands the perils of straying from the bloodline:

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10 comments:

  1. Another Kiwi7/08/2009 05:03:00 p.m.

    Mito Eve and Y-chrome A
    Decided over quite a few beers
    To overlook the 10,000 years
    So they went out the back
    and had a paleolithic time in the sack

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  2. M. Bouffant7/08/2009 05:58:00 p.m.

    Oooh, I'll be damned, almost linked to ol' Kilmeade there as a prime example of genetic drift & eugenics, but I reloaded & my work was done for me.

    Easy & "shrot."

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  3. herr doktor bimler7/08/2009 06:02:00 p.m.

    The Twilight of the Mitochondria.

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  4. zombie rotten mcdonald7/09/2009 06:58:00 a.m.

    Kilmeade has an enticingly large forehead, does he not?

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  5. Caliph Garrett7/09/2009 07:46:00 a.m.

    Kilmeade has an enticingly large forehead, does he not?

    That should make a phrenological analysis even easier.

    To the video analysis lab, Dr. Frist!

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  6. herr doktor bimler7/09/2009 01:36:00 p.m.

    Kilmeade has an enticingly large forehead
    All the better for me to PROJECT ONTO.

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  7. herr doktor bimler7/09/2009 01:51:00 p.m.

    enticingly large forehead

    That'll be the congenital syphilis.

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  8. Another Kiwi7/09/2009 03:37:00 p.m.

    I was leaning toward encephalitis myself but...


    I've been mured, not so bad, really

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  9. fish7/10/2009 11:01:00 a.m.

    Kilmeade has an enticingly large forehead

    False packaging. Crack it open and it is filled with styrofoam peanuts.

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  10. herr doktor bimler7/10/2009 03:33:00 p.m.

    Perhaps it was a mistake to have "Contents may settle after packing" tattooed upon my own forehead.

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