Show Notes
This release contains only the music track from Base by Base Episode 144.
Song title: Stitched in the Subtelomere Light
Original Base by Base episode: 144: Revising the age of the human chromosome 2 fusion
Article metadata:
Article title: Revised time estimation of the ancestral human chromosome 2 fusion
Journal: BMC Genomics (2022) 23:616
DOI: 10.1186/s12864-022-08828-7
Reference: Poszewiecka B, Gogolewski K, Stankiewicz P, Gambin A. Revised time estimation of the ancestral human chromosome 2 fusion. BMC Genomics. 2022;23:616. doi:10.1186/s12864-022-08828-7
Lyrics:
Verse 1
Two ends of an old-world thread, they met and held on tight
A quiet seam inside our cells, a fossil in the light
We trace it through the letter-shifts, the footprints in the code
Where tiny changes cluster close, then fade as ages road
Pre-Chorus
Count the bias near the edges, where the telomeres used to be
Weak to strong, a tilted coin, repeating history
Then watch it soften, drift and thin, as time unspools the line
A signal falling into calm, a clock we can define
Chorus
We were stitched, we were stitched in the subtelomere light
A fusion written long ago, still burning in our sight
Measure the rise, measure the fall, let the pattern make it clear
A million years, give or take—our origin is near
Verse 2
An exacting kind of counting, no shortcuts left to guess
Inclusion, exclusion—truth pulled out from the mess
Dynamic steps across the map, bootstrapped to hold the frame
Comparing kin, the distances sing back the timing’s name
Bridge
Some pages have missing lines, some gaps where silence grows
Assemblies blur the boundary where the cleanest signal flows
But as the brighter genomes come, the seam will speak again
And other branches on the tree will learn to date their when
Final Chorus
We were stitched, we were stitched in the subtelomere light
A fusion written long ago, still burning in our sight
From clustered sparks at chromosome ends to echoes disappearing
Around nine hundred thousand years—the clock keeps reappearing
Chapters
- (00:00:18) - A clock of our own creation
