I picture a really big funnel, open side up.
Above it are the numberless faces of the ancestors, fading upward into invisibility. Infinite in number and variety.
It was a unanimous decision. Whatever their religious backgrounds, they were all united. The Supreme Court ruled that Myriad Genetics cannot copyright a human gene. "A naturally occurring DNA segment is a product of nature and not patent eligible merely because it has been isolated," Justice Clarence Thomas wrote for the court.