Final Endorser List For The Genealogical Adam and Eve

[Timothy_Horton]

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For sure. In fact, I often tell students that if you don’t experience some awe/transcendence or thrill/exhilaration, then research probably isn’t for you (though there’s a lot you can do with science besides being a researcher yourself) because research is often difficult, frustrating, and often very tedious work. Right now I am drowning in DNA sequencing data, which could be a very boring task that is like a cross between data-entry and proofreading, but because of what the sequences actually are, and what they’re revealing, it’s incredibly exciting!

It would probably make a great thread for us to share our WOW! moments. For me it’s looking through my telescope at a distant galaxy and realizing the photons hitting my eye have been traveling through space longer than the Earth has been in existence. Or chipping out a trilobite fossil and realizing I’m the first living thing to see the specimen in 400+ million years.