tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6499771778569209667.post2504099904824068980..comments2024-03-26T22:48:55.424-07:00Comments on Flying Totems: Where we're coming fromBenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06590397694589547524noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6499771778569209667.post-88437502800357575112012-02-17T11:44:26.017-08:002012-02-17T11:44:26.017-08:00'Only Begotten Daughter' by James Morrow h...'<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Only-Begotten-Daughter-Harvest-Book/dp/0156002434" rel="nofollow">Only Begotten Daughter</a>' by James Morrow had an interesting take on the unrecognized importance of a sponge. I probably just did the unforgivable and wrote a spoiler.susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16747450215034568033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6499771778569209667.post-68875927417264089722012-02-16T22:43:26.642-08:002012-02-16T22:43:26.642-08:00I also like this part:
"It means there was a...I also like this part:<br /><br /><i>"It means there was an elaborate machinery in place that already had some function," he says. "What I want to know now is what were all these genes doing prior to the advent of sponge."</i><br /><br />If sponges have just spent the past billion years or so pretending to lack self awareness and they're actually some kind of dormant dominant species, well, it'll be a great plot twist.Benhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06590397694589547524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6499771778569209667.post-33588360270158280382012-02-13T17:58:05.366-08:002012-02-13T17:58:05.366-08:00I've been following the ongoing research for s...I've been following the ongoing research for some years as well. It wasn't that long ago the archeologists were certain homo sap sap had simply wiped out the Neanderthal race and now it turns out they were dating.<br /><br />You might also find <a href="http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100804/full/466673a.html" rel="nofollow">this article</a> about sea sponges as interesting as I did - especially this part: <br /><br />'sponges must have descended from a more advanced ancestor than previously suspected'susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16747450215034568033noreply@blogger.com