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Who’s in Charge Here?

Posted in Science & Math by Greg Ross on July 28th, 2008

"A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg." — Samuel Butler

"A zygote is a gamete's way of producing more gametes. This may be the purpose of the universe." — Robert Heinlein

"The nucleic acids invented human beings in order to be able to reproduce themselves even on the moon." — Sol Spiegelman