{"query": "Tracing the peoples — genes and words, two clocks reading on", "count": 20, "results": [{"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_n_19079c10b24d", "title": "Sermon on the Mount §som_20_wise_and_foolish_builders: \"Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will like...", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock. The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on th"}, {"id": "card_c_f07369fce49d", "title": "Tracing the peoples — genes and words, two c ↔ The genome as information — and the algebra ", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "populations, like genes and languages, admit (2n-3)!! possible trees (10,395 for seven groups); two lineages coalesce to one ancestor in ~2N generations  — a concord the card itself states; mined + ve"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_joshua_15_1", "title": "Matthew Henry on Joshua 15:1", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Joshua 15:1 — Judah and Joseph were the two sons of Jacob on whom Reuben's forfeited birth-right devolved. Judah had the dominion entailed on him, and Joseph the double portion, and therefore these"}, {"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_n_706919261212", "title": "Psalm 67 — Psalm 67", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "<<For the Chief Musician. With stringed instruments. A Psalm. A song.>> May God be merciful to us, bless us, and cause his face to shine on us. Selah. That your way may be known on earth, and your sal"}, {"id": "card_c_544e9ef10888", "title": "Tracing the peoples — genes and words, two c ↔ Glottochronology — carbon-dating the words", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "shared basic vocabulary decays exponentially to 47% after five millennia — the linguistic half-life beside the genetic one  — a concord the card itself states; mined + verified."}, {"id": "card_c_3e047427d4e6", "title": "Language as a tree — the method biology and  ↔ Tracing the peoples — genes and words, two c", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "A gene and a word obey the same tree math — the deepest rhyme between the code of life and the code of speech.  — a concord the card itself states; mined + verified."}, {"id": "card_c_946ec0e5d6f3", "title": "Tracing the peoples — genes and words, two c ↔ Language as a tree — the method biology and ", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "They are the same method — a molecular clock ticking, a tree branching — turned on the human family  — a concord the card itself states; mined + verified."}, {"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_n_19b10fa2e595", "title": "Leviticus 16", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. The LORD spoke to Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they came near before the LORD, and died;\n2. and the LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron your brother not to come at just any time"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_psalms_88_1", "title": "Matthew Henry on Psalms 88:1", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Psalms 88:1 — It should seem, by the titles of this and the following psalm, that Heman was the penman of the one and Ethan of the other. There were two, of these names, who were sons of Zerah the "}, {"id": "card_src_comm_jeremiah_3_6", "title": "Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 3:6", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Jeremiah 3:6 — The date of this sermon must be observed, in order to the right understanding of it; it was in the days of Josiah, who set on foot a blessed work of reformation, in which he was hear"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_ezra_10_15", "title": "Matthew Henry on Ezra 10:15", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Ezra 10:15 — The method of proceeding in this matter being concluded on, and the congregation dismissed, that each in his respective place might gain and give intelligence to facilitate the matter,"}, {"id": "card_c_f4d709efdbe7", "title": "Tracing the peoples — genes and words, two c ↔ The linguistic clock — the comparative metho", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "shared basic vocabulary decays exponentially to 47% after five millennia — the linguistic half-life beside the genetic one  — a concord the card itself states; mined + verified."}, {"id": "card_c_059c5628759e", "title": "Tracing the peoples — genes and words, two c ↔ Radioactive decay — the exponential clock of", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "shared basic vocabulary decays exponentially to 47% after five millennia — the linguistic half-life beside the genetic one  — a concord the card itself states; mined + verified."}, {"id": "card_src_comm_isaiah_2_6", "title": "Matthew Henry on Isaiah 2:6", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Isaiah 2:6 — The calling in of the Gentiles was accompanied with the rejection of the Jews; it was their fall, and the diminishing of them, that was the riches of the Gentiles; and the casting off "}, {"id": "card_src_comm_deuteronomy_11_26", "title": "Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 11:26", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Deuteronomy 11:26 — Here Moses concludes his general exhortations to obedience; and his management is very affecting, and such as, one would think, should have engaged them for ever to God, and sho"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_leviticus_10_12", "title": "Matthew Henry on Leviticus 10:12", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Leviticus 10:12 — Moses is here directing Aaron to go on with his service after this interruption. Afflictions should rather quicken us to our duty than take us off from it. Observe (Lev 10:12), He"}, {"id": "card_n_e723019597ad", "title": "Easton: Commandments, the Ten", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Ex. 34:28; Deut. 10:4, marg. “ten words”) i.e., the Decalogue (q.v.), is a summary of the immutable moral law. These commandments were first given in their written form to the people of Israel when t"}]}