Genome (The Extinction Files, #2)

by A.G. Riddle

“Which is why, if you compare our babies to those of apes, the apes’ babies are far more developed. You’d have to gestate a human baby for eighteen to twenty-one months to achieve similar development at birth. Compared to other species, our offspring are born almost completely helpless. They need their parents, so those parents bond with them. As a result, we form villages, social structures to protect our young. Family units. Evolution met that biological challenge—that obstetric dilemma—with a cultural, societal solution. One that makes us human.”

One of the Spanish special forces remarked that Spain was the second most mountainous country in Europe. Only Switzerland had more mountains.

Sex changes everything, Ward thought. It was a variable counterintelligence agencies and computer algorithms would never be able to factor in. Almost like a viral infection that rewires a brain, changes emotions, even alters the lens through which a person sees the world.