here's something to think about
"You are a champion of champions,
genetically speaking, because you are
the product of an inconceivably
complex web of ancestors, spiraling back
for billions of years into the primordial
ooze, not a single individual of
which ever failed to grow to maturity
and beget viable offspring while
most other creatures around them,
including many of their brothers,
sisters, and cousins, faded away and
the majority eventually disappeared
forever into extinction. If your ancestors
hadn't been such top performers
that they were 100 percent successful
in procreation, your ancestral lines
of descent would be broken
and you could not exist."
--Guy Murchie, *The Seven Mysteries of Life*
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But alas, we clever little people have worked hard with our civilization to undo all of evolution’s work. Beginning with the confluence of agriculture and the weakness we call compassion, those that Darwin’s rules saw as unfit lived-on. Then we threw another wrench into the grand order by coupling for love, arranging marriages, and creating social classes. It had all been working so well…
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