Thanks to the marine worm Platynereis dumerilii, an animal whose genes have evolved very slowly, scientists have shown that while haemoglobin appeared independently in several species, it actually descends from a single gene transmitted to all by their last common ancestor. (1)
Things discovered.
Only because they would anyway be.
By someone else. In the future or past.
On a rainy day or during a day full of death and dismay.
Things invented.
For no other reason than because someone or something would make them anyway breath.
Look at the cosmos.
Full of trees.
(Where did I come from?)
Why is the cosmos full of me?
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