"The three-letter words of the genetic code are the same in every creature. CGA means arginine and GCG means alanine - in bats, in beetles, in beech trees. Even in the bacteria living at boiling temperatures in sulphurous springs thousands of feet beneath the surface of the Atlantic ocean or in those microscopic capsules of deviousness called viruses. All life is one. Seaweed is your distant cousin and anthrax one of your advanced relatives. The unity of life is an empirical fact."
-Matt Ridley Plus
