[AndrewC]

that somehow an ameoba is my evolutionary cousin.

And your "better" cousin, with ~200 times more genes than you!

[gore3000]

And your "better" cousin, with ~200 times more genes than you!

Yes indeed! It is interesting that as far as the number of genes, humans have devolved from the simple amoeba!

[Nebullis]

And your "better" cousin [amoeba], with ~200 times more genes than you!

Surely you mean 200 times larger genome. (I wasn't aware they had sequenced the amoeba genome and identified ORFs!)