“Few people do, which is a real shame, because they’re by far the most interesting reptile species.
Truly a glimpse into the distant past.”
I kept looking at the tuatara blood.
“It’s hard for us to even imagine how successful they’ve been—tuatara have been around a thousand times longer than humans.
Just think about that. To survive as long as the tuatara,
humans would have to be in the first one-tenth of one percent of our history.”
“Seems unlikely,” I said. “Very.
Mr. Pickett loves that about Tua—how successful she is.
He loves that at forty, she’s probably still in the first quarter of her life.”
“So he leaves his whole estate to her?” “I can think of worse uses for a fortune,” Malik said.
I wasn’t sure that I could.
“But what fascinates me most, and is the focus of my research, is their molecular evolution rate.
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