"Not only have you been lucky enough to be attached since time immemorial to a favored evolutionary line, but you have also been extremely-make that miraculously-fortunate in your personal ancestry. Consider the fact that for 3.8 billion years, a period of time older than the Earth's mountains and rivers and oceans, every one of your forebears on both sides has been attractive enough to find a mate, healthy enough to reproduce, and sufficiently blessed by fate and circumstances to live long enough to do so. Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result in you."
This text was extremely interesting to me because i've never really thought about the conscuenses that one small thing could have. The smallest of decisisons could have greatly altered my life. For example my mother could be drinking while pregnant, my dad not going to prom with that one girl, my grandpa not fighting for the one girl he liked, the possiblilites can go forever. Anything could have happened and anything could have gone wrong. I am just happy that none of it went wrong for me.
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