Friday, April 9, 2010

Evolution

Can you imagine how much time it takes for a stone to become a pebble.
How much time for the Himalayas to get formed that is a rise of around 8 kms from the sea level of Tethys Sea?
How many generations from early man to me? How Many Generations for Giraffe to develop his neck so long?
How many years back did my mother tongue come into being?
How did the eye evolve, kidney come into being, heart began to beat?
If man has ruled the earth for 100,000 years …. Dinosaurs have done it for 150,000,000 years …..What kind of laptops did they have ……… was man the first specie to go to the moon and watch LCD TV?
Does the DNA code have “if” conditions and “loops” like a programming language? Are A,G,S,T amino acid actually just bits like 0,1 in a computer program
Where is the DNA’s compiler, linker and loader ?
For every human alive there are a million insects? There are insects in the deserts , forest, poles, flying over Himalayas, living in crude oil well, salty water. Who is king “homo sapiens” or “mosquitoes?”
You may know Charles Darwin travelled 5 years in HMS Beagle way back in 1831 before he published “Origin of Species” but have you read his grand father’s poem !
Organic Life beneath the shoreless waves
Was born and nurs’d in oceans pearly caves
First forms unseen by spheric glass
Move on the mud, or pierce the watery mass
Then as successive generations bloom
New powers acquire and larger limbs assume


These books are great reads:
Evolution: Carl Zimmer
Origin of Species: Charles Darwin
Life on Earth: David Attenborough
Climbing Mount Improbable: Richard Dawkins
The Earth through Time: Levin