Everyone on Earth is your cousin (2014)

Re:Everyone on Earth is your cousin (2014) by Log_out_ on Sunday December 17, 2023 @12:07PM (#38674287)

Your belly button was connected to your mother, who's navel was connected to hers, all the way to the first mammal. One endless carried forward torch of life.

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Re:Everyone on Earth is your cousin (2014) by hackernewds on Sunday December 17, 2023 @12:47PM (#38674694)

technically they all individually have ends that never met

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Re:Everyone on Earth is your cousin (2014) by meepmorp on Sunday December 17, 2023 @02:47PM (#38675756)

I'm not sure that the first mammals were placental.

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Re:Everyone on Earth is your cousin (2014) by wrycoder on Sunday December 17, 2023 @03:12PM (#38675965)

More than that, every cell membrane in your body is continuous in time with the membrane of a first cell billions of years ago.

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Re:Everyone on Earth is your cousin (2014) by friend_and_foe on Sunday December 17, 2023 @06:58PM (#38677689)

I jokingly tell this to my son, I call it "a temporal cable all the way to the beginning of time"

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