Landau James E.f - The Biodiversity Song lyrics

SARAH Everyone's part of a family in a tribe or a race or ethnic group by right of birth, And we're all in the subspecies we call h*mo sapiens sapiens, the only known surviving one on Earth; We're in the species h*mo sapiens, which is in the genus h*mo, in the family that we call Hominidae, And in the anthropoid suborder with the apes and the monkeys, and also all the human family. It is so biodiverse, and we're so h*mogeneous, To realize how alike we are, it doesn't take a genius; So many cla**es and phyla, From Amoeba to h*mo to Hyla, It's so biodiverse, and we're not. And we're in the primate order, if you include all the lemurs, the sifakas, indris and the tarsiers, And the placental infracla**, with dogs and mice and other non- pouched live-bearing little critters that bear furs. Along with the marsupials, we're in the therian subcla**, and, along with echidnas and platypi, In the cla** of Mammalia -- from the kangaroos and wombats to the dolphins, whales and hippopotami. And still, our genes are relatively shared if you think about the cla**es in the tetrapod infraphylum, With amphibians and reptiles, and such birds as the chickens, or the cuckoos in the old insane asylum; If you include the fish, we're in the vertebrate subphylum, and, along with acorn worms, we are chordates, And that's just one of the phyla in the animal kingdom, along with molluscs, sponges and coelenterates. It is so biodiverse, and we're so h*mogeneous, To realize how alike we are, it doesn't take a genius; With each order and division, Subspecies and precision, It's so biodiverse . . . what are we? And besides that giant kingdom of the arthropods and brachiopods, and annelids, or else segmented worms, And flatworms, bryozoans, tardigrades, onychophorans, sipunculoids and some echinoderms, There are other living kingdoms, with the fungi and such plants as moss, sundews, ferns, magnolias, rice and beans, Not to mention the two kingdoms of the protists and prokaryotes, such as algae, protozoa and blue-greens. And even simpler and more biodiverse yet are the viruses, such as the common cold and HIV, And simpler yet than those are little entities called viroids, specks much too infinitesimal to see; And simplest of them all are the prions, which are little more than fleeting strands of simple DNA, Little reproductive strains formed from self-replicating patterns that started from some old, primordial clay. It is so biodiverse, and we're so h*mogeneous, To realize how alike we are, it doesn't take a genius; One thing's sure: we're the solution To years of evolution, It's so biodiverse, and we rule!