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Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
> 
> In article <XnsA9887A26A6491taustincagmailcom@69.16.179.43>,
> Ninapenda Jibini  <taustinca@gmail.com> wrote:
> >djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) wrote in
> >news:pH9sBC.1sH1@kithrup.com:
> >
> >> In article <XnsA9886C14CEECCtaustincagmailcom@69.16.179.43>,
> >> Ninapenda Jibini  <taustinca@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>benj <benj.fake@gmail.com> wrote in news:pr0tvm$1gl9$3
> >>>@gioia.aioe.org:
> >>>
> >>>> On 10/26/2018 11:58 PM, The Starmaker wrote:
> >>>>> i can buy a DNA test at Walmart...
> >>>>>
> >>>>> but, but...
> >>>>>
> >>>>> but what would it find?
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> maybe i got some....cousins who are monkies?
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> maybe, maybe...
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I got some Martian ancestors!
> >>>>>
> >>>> Would find large amounts of Neanderthal DNA, Bozo.
> >>>>
> >>>You're an optomist, aren't you?
> >>
> >> Many, if not most, people of European descent have a *little*
> >> Neanderthal DNA.
> >
> >That was not the insult I was aiming for. I have doubts that
> >Starmaker's DNA is that close to vertebrate, much less mammal.
> 
> Well, s/he's got to have fingers, at least.  And probably, eyes.
> 
> So likeliest, s/he's either a vertebrate or a cephalopod.
> 
> Caution: thread drift ahead ...
> 
> There's an episode of _Doctor Who_ called "The Lazarus
> Experiment."  The eponymous Professor Lazarus, at the age of 76,
> invents a gizmo that reduces his age to thirty or so (I could
> look up the actor's age at the time of filming, but I won't).
> But the technique is unstable, and he keeps morphing into a
> mixture of humanoid and scorpion.
> 
> And the Doctor says, "He's regressing back to an ancestral form."
> 
> But vertebrates are deuterostomes, and arthropods are protostomes
> (look them up at your leisure), and to find a common ancestor you
> would have to regress back to the Urbilaterian (look him up too),
> which no one has found any traces of, though some of the
> Edicarian fauna *might* serve, if we had more specimens.
> 
> So every time I watch it, and it's one of my favorite episodes, I
> keep muttering, "It's not *science* fiction, it's Doctor Who."
> 
> --
> Dorothy J. Heydt
> Vallejo, California
> djheydt at gmail dot com
> www.kithrup.com/~djheydt/


I'm regressing back to my martian form...