Poems and Thoughts    by Frank Maurer

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Our Darwin's Tubercle (or Point) A tiny bump at 10 o'clock on the right ear. (This bump is at 2 o'clock on the left ear!) But, to the point--why this small projection? Ahh, another genetic take from the eons of life's change. Where did we come from? From what did we evolve? Hmm. Some creature with pointed ears; All that remains in our present morphology To remind us of a very different origin! Yes? An insectivorous, arboreal tree shrew! Go to a source of historical knowledge and check it out. And be overjoyed and humbled from whence we might have come. (Note: This is what Darwin proclaimed in his The Descent of Man--1879-- to show how we might be related to other primates, many of which do not have pointed ears! An unproven hypothesis, yet not completed. But a nice story which I could not resist. A single gene with two alleles, one of which is dominant. My poetic side thinks It might still lead to something.) Frank Maurer 30 November 2021.