Uma asked me how one got sick with the chicken pox. I explained how it was transmitted from sick children, how being around or in contact with a child infected with chicken pox could cause you to get chicken pox. She asked again, so I repeated my answer in a slightly different form. She got annoyed and said (approximately), "I know you get it from sick kids, but how did the first kid get it?" She reasoned about it and inferred that it had to have started somewhere. I thought that was pretty remarkable. My ability to explain microbial evolution in four-year-old terms was not nearly as remarkable.

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posted by Ketan @ 5/24/2009 01:10:00 PM