Unfortunately, however, he seems to feel that he must conscientiously report every fact known
about Percy's
ancestors and
about his relatively uneventful life, including
details about pets, picnics, weekend trips, and the like that contribute little to our knowledge of the real Walker Percy.
«All the questions we have
about ancient evolutionary events — what our last common
ancestor looked like, when methane metabolism arose, when oxygen - producing organisms evolved — they really benefit from having more genomes to look at and a more
detailed tree,» says Parks.