Happy Monday!

This should help us all regain some persepective on life. This is from last week's Economist:

This lowly ragworm may not look much like a human, but a paper in this week's Science, by Florian Raible, of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory and his colleagues, suggests the two have more in common than meets the eye. The human genome is more complex than that of invertebrates such as flies, suggesting evolution has made humans more sophisticated. But the ragworm genome is about as complex as the human one, suggesting that what actually happened was that the flies got simpler and that, genetically, people and worms are equals. (full story)

I always like to start the work-week off with a motivational thought like that, don't you?