This is the Age of Dionysus, the dismemberment of an anthropocentric planet,
the god who inspired it, and of the desperate search for his rotted limbs.

Fresh horseshit shares the trail with expensive walking shoes; animals jut out
from the knobs of trees.

Who are we in the shape of things? "It doesn’t start out with something
that looks like a monkey, and the something that looks like an ape, and
then something that looks like a human, and then all of the sudden
you've got people. It’s much more complicated than that."

"For Dr. (Tal) Dagan, evolution is still shaped like a tree. But over billions of years, thousands of genes have shuttled among the branches."