"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 forbears 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, astoundingly, and all to briefly-in you."
