Lives on Earth

DNA

  • My Genome and Me

    Recently I sent the National Geographic genome project a sample of my DNA on two Q-tips swabbed inside my mouth. The information I received back described the whereabouts of my ancestors over the last 50,000 years or so. I’d known bits… Continue reading

  • Spirituality and Evolution

    My wrestling with various late-life questions that might be called “spiritual” has taken me to a fuller appreciation of evolution and our biological history. The sequence here, the process—or so it has seemed to me—is that I’ve been looking for… Continue reading