12:12pm July 1, 2013

“Once we were blobs in the sea, and then fishes, and then lizards and rats, and then monkeys, and hundreds of things in between. This hand was once a fin, this hand once had claws! In my human mouth I have the pointy teeth of a wolf and the chisel teeth of a rabbit and the grinding teeth of a cow! Our blood is as salty as the sea we used to live in! When we’re frightened, the hair on our skin stands up, just like it did when we had fur. We are history! Everything we’ve ever been on the way to becoming us, we still are. Would you like the rest of the story?
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I’m made up of the memories of my parents and grandparents, all my ancestors. They’re in the way I look, in the colour of my hair. And I’m made up of everyone I’ve ever met who’s changed the way I think.”

Tiffany Aching in “A Hat Full Of Sky" - Terry Pratchett (via aryaesque)

I love those books.

Also given that many nonhuman animals communicate in all kinds of ways including language, I would not be shocked if some of our knowledge and our handed down stories came from a time before we were homo sapiens. I have always wondered which ones, and how have they changed and stayed the same.

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