[1][2] Paul and Lena visit an exhibition in which they see current research to trace back the ancestors of modern humans who are all related to each other.
Paul and Lena discuss the involvement of quantum effects in the duplication of DNA and intend to do further research to apply it to genetic tracing.
Paul and Lena meet in London to witness this launching multiple claims about other common ancestors as well as violent eruptions fueled by racist defenses of them.
[3] The novelette was translated into Japanese by Makoto Yamagishi (1997), Italian (2001), French by Francis Lustman and Quarante-Deux (2007) and Spanish by Carlos Pavón (2010).
She adds that it "directly addresses the conflict between science and religion" since it "takes a stand against religious appropriation of scientific results."