David Christian: Origin Story: A Big History of Everything (Hardcover, Little, Brown and Company)
"Most historians study the smallest slivers of time, emphasizing specific dates, individuals, and documents. But …
the sequence TTA says, Add on a molecule of the amino acid leucine, while TAG is a sort of punctuation mark that says, Okay, you can stop copying now.
— Origin Story: A Big History of Everything by David Christian