{"query": "The genetic clock — mitochondrial Eve and the molecular reco", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_8a1d7924121c", "title": "The genetic clock — mitochondrial Eve and the molecular record", "shelf": "science", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Mitochondrial DNA passes only mother to child and never recombines, so it is a clean\nmaternal lineage; the Y chromosome does the same for fathers. Mutations accumulate at a roughly\nsteady rate, so cou"}, {"id": "card_n_d8471389950e", "title": "Tracing the peoples — genes and words, two clocks reading one history", "shelf": "science", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A people can be traced across DISTANCE and TIME by two records that survive in the body and\nin the mouth: the genome and the language. They are the same method — a molecular clock ticking,\na tree bran"}, {"id": "card_c_c5a078faff2c", "title": "The linguistic clock — the comparative metho ↔ The genetic clock — mitochondrial Eve and th", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "RESONANCE with the genetic clock; the words remember the road.  — a concord the card itself states; mined + verified."}, {"id": "card_n_770170ab1111", "title": "The linguistic clock — the comparative method dates the dispersal", "shelf": "science", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The same history is written in the words. The comparative method reconstructs ancestral\ntongues from their daughters (sealed in the language-evolution wing), and glottochronology's\nexponential vocabul"}, {"id": "card_src_book_12694", "title": "History of the American Clock Business for the Past Sixty Years, and Life of Chauncey Jerome Barnum's Connection with the Yankee Clock Business — Chauncey Jerome", "shelf": "gutenberg", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "History of the American Clock Business for the Past Sixty Years, and Life of Chauncey Jerome Barnum's Connection with the Yankee Clock Business, by Chauncey Jerome. Subjects: Clock and watch making --"}, {"id": "card_c_6c269f1c048c", "title": "Tracing the peoples — genes and words, two c ↔ The genetic clock — mitochondrial Eve and th", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Sealed: every human carries a mitochondrial genome of 16,569 base pairs (~4 KB of maternal inheritance) ... two lineages coalesce to one ancestor in ~2N generations  — a concord the card itself states"}, {"id": "card_src_word_molecular_genetics", "title": "molecular genetics", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "molecular genetics: (noun) the branch of genetics concerned with the structure and activity of genetic material at the molecular level"}, {"id": "card_src_word_clock_dial", "title": "clock dial", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "clock dial: (noun) the face of a clock showing hours and minutes of the day — syn: clock face"}, {"id": "card_src_word_clock_face", "title": "clock face", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "clock face: (noun) the face of a clock showing hours and minutes of the day — syn: clock dial"}, {"id": "card_src_word_eve", "title": "eve", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "eve: (noun) (Old Testament) Adam's wife in Judeo-Christian mythology: the first woman and mother of the human race; God created Eve from Adam's rib and placed Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden · (nou"}, {"id": "card_n_b10117556d41", "title": "The two clocks — quartz, cesium, and the second", "shelf": "science", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The wrist clock and the world clock. Quartz beats 32,768 times a second; the SI second is\nDEFINED as 9,192,631,770 oscillations of cesium-133's hyperfine transition (since 1967) —\nsealed: the cesium c"}, {"id": "card_c_3b3121f3e55d", "title": "The genetic clock is read from the genome", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "mtDNA and Y lineages, dated by the molecular clock."}, {"id": "card_src_lex_h2332", "title": "H2332 — חַוָּה (chav.vah): Eve", "shelf": "lexicon", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "חַוָּה (chav.vah), Strong's H2332: Eve. A woman living at the time before the Flood, first mentioned at Gen.3.20; married to Adam (H0121); mother of: Cain (H7014B), Abel (H1893) and Seth (H8352) Also "}, {"id": "card_src_word_molecular_biology", "title": "molecular biology", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "molecular biology: (noun) the branch of biology that studies the structure and activity of macromolecules essential to life (and especially with their genetic role)"}, {"id": "card_src_word_around_the_clock", "title": "around-the-clock", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "around-the-clock: (adjective) at all times — syn: day-and-night, nonstop, round-the-clock"}, {"id": "card_src_word_round_the_clock", "title": "round-the-clock", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "round-the-clock: (adjective) at all times — syn: around-the-clock, day-and-night, nonstop"}, {"id": "card_theory_vsepr_theory", "title": "VSEPR theory (molecular geometry)", "shelf": "theories", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "VSEPR theory (molecular geometry) — an engine domain that can touch it: molecular_geometry. Calibration: seals — a deterministic verifier can CONFIRM or BREAK checkable claims drawn from it, and seal "}, {"id": "card_c_01a2b706782a", "title": "Radioactive decay — the exponential clock of ↔ Capacitor — the exponential clock (RC time c", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "The same exponential that discharges a capacitor empties a nucleus's odds — the bench's RC clock and the carbon clock are one curve wearing different constants.  — a concord the card itself states; mi"}, {"id": "card_src_word_midsummer_eve", "title": "midsummer eve", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "midsummer eve: (noun) the night before Midsummer Day — syn: Midsummer Night, St John's Eve, St John's Night, June 23"}, {"id": "card_src_book_17021", "title": "Watch and Clock Escapements A Complete Study in Theory and Practice of the Lever, Cylinder and Chronometer Escapements, Together with a Brief Account of the Origin and Evolution of", "shelf": "gutenberg", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Watch and Clock Escapements A Complete Study in Theory and Practice of the Lever, Cylinder and Chronometer Escapements, Together with a Brief Account of the Origin and Evolution of the Escapement in H"}]}