Absolutely, reading Selfish Gene in high school set me on the path to this type of exploration. Genes, in the pure abstract sense, are the unit by which we inte

Absolutely, reading Selfish Gene in high school set me on the path to this type of exploration. Genes, in the pure abstract sense, are the unit by which we interrogate understand evolutionary change. There's a large grey area about the boundaries of genes, but after a certain point, genes assemble into operational units larger than themselves, a genome. Obelisks are some of the simplest, most rudimentary genomes described thus far.