explaining common ancestry

One can also point out that not only are we related to apes but to other creatures as well. I and my cat are distant relations. About a hundred million years ago there was a little creature in the forest which we call a Eutherian. This little fellow is the ancestor of both me and my cat. We are much more closely related to the ape than the cat, but in fact we are probably related to every life form. It's a big family tree. So your cousin would correspond by analogy to an ape (I have several cousins that I would characterize that way) and a very distant 10th cousin would correspond to the cat.

Because he's the great,great, great, great, etc., etc grandfather of what became human beings millions of years down the road.

Did He mention atomic theory?Carico, you are a trip. I will go to bed tonight happy, thinking about you. You crack me up.