Damn it’s been a while since this place has been updated. Hopefully I will get my act together and start putting some interesting stuff up here pretty regularly from now on. Anyways, I was just reading this tidbit by Richard Dawkins and it’s still blowing my mind:

“Molecular evidence suggests that our common ancestor with chimpanzees lived, in Africa, between five and seven million years ago, say half a million generations ago. This is not long by evolutionary standards. … in your left hand you hold the right hand of your mother. In turn she holds the hand of her mother, your grandmother. Your grandmother holds her mother’s hand, and so on. … How far do we have to go until we reach our common ancestor with the chimpanzees? It is a surprisingly short way. Allowing one yard per person, we arrive at the ancestor we share with chimpanzees in under 300 miles.”