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This reminds me of a Bill Bryson book I once read for a class in high school "A Short History of Nearly Everything". In it Bryson explains that if you ever hear someone bragging about being related to Shakespeare, you should say "me too". In the time since Shakespeare he says that the atoms that composed Shakespeare are spread across the world and a part of each of us. I feel that the carbon cycle gives a whole new meaning to reincarnation, I consist of the atoms that once ruled empires and composed every ancient animal that is now extinct. Even if an entire species became extinct millions of years before humans even evolved, they still live on in us.