Cycle Of Genes

Approaching the end of Invisible Cities, Calvino starts to extend the writing only on Marco Polo's thoughts and encounters. The reader starts to illustrate a finer picture of both Kublai Khan and Marco Polo. In other words blog-material galore. But I restrained myself from righting and continued to dive into Marco's encounters. But on page one hundred fifty five/one hundred fifty three, a lightbulb clicked in my brain. A connection was established. Invisible Cities and Selfish Gene. Dawkins and Calvino? Biology and Kublai Khan? Prepare to be enlightened.
The second chapter of Selfish Gene, has everything to do with evolution: how the ancestor is never lost, it only grows more complex throughout generations. What I mean is that no matter the mutation or process of swift or gradual evolution that takes place: the original block will still be present. "When the turns exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of the cities begins." An endless cycle, but once this separation occurs, the original seed is carried by both cities.
The same has to do with the Selfish Gene, without getting too scientific: speciation. Speciation is what happens when one species divides into two. At  one point of this isolation (the scientific term: geographic, behavioral, temporal isolation) the species can no longer breed efficiently, thus creating a species. A cycle which is called natural selection: in my words a cycle of ever/complexity. Never stopping, always paving the road for the world's existence.
Cities pave our world, and never stop overlapping itself, but the foundations are never altered. No matter the years, there was once a beginning and there will always be a beginning.

With no End.