Say thanks to your homo habilis grandma

I really ought to take more care in attending to and using my body, it's a machine that's been squeezed through millions of birth canals to be here now, growing and changing as it went, morphing behaviourally and physiologically so that now I have a big brain and walk on two legs.

We are the evolutionary inheritors of a technological process that is magic, never in our hands, to large to be within sight, almost to large to imagine. If you feel lonely imagine all the animals who made you, it's hard to feel disconnected when you're the child of fossils.