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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
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+ | Ponytail continues Cueball's medical checkup with a genetic test. | ||
− | In epidemiology, a risk factor is a variable associated with an increased risk of disease or infection. The title text says that this is a risk factor because being a living | + | {{w|Genetic test}}s show people congenital diseases that they might be at risk for and give them insight into their ancestry. In this case, the genetic results are extremely obvious: His genes are part of a long line of genes stretching back to <s>the first organism on Earth</s> one of the earliest forms of life on Earth. {{note|the simplest forms of life could have evolved multiple times before some of them managed to survive for enough generations to give rise to everything on the planet today.}} |
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+ | This information is, of course, useless for medical purposes. | ||
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+ | This comic is similar to [[1839|the previous one]], as in both comics a doctor tells a patient something that is true for all living human beings. In fact, the drawing is extremely similar to Panel 1 of the previous comic. | ||
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+ | A similar joke was made in the title text of [[674|#674: Natural Parenting]]: "On one hand, every single one of my ancestors going back billions of years has managed to figure [having kids] out. On the other hand, that's the mother of all sampling biases." | ||
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+ | In epidemiology, a risk factor is a variable associated with an increased risk of disease or infection. The title text says that this is a risk factor because being a living human being is, trivially, associated with every disease that could possibly afflict human beings. | ||
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
:[Cueball is seated on an medical examination table while Ponytail stands dressed in a doctor's coat holding a file in her right hand.] | :[Cueball is seated on an medical examination table while Ponytail stands dressed in a doctor's coat holding a file in her right hand.] | ||
:Ponytail: Your genetic test results are back. Apparently you're part of an unbroken lineage stretching back billions of years to the early Earth! | :Ponytail: Your genetic test results are back. Apparently you're part of an unbroken lineage stretching back billions of years to the early Earth! | ||
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{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
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