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 that the Earth's mountain 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 eventually, astounishingly, and all too briefly--------in you!!!

Thursday, November 20, 2008