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an exploding star caused us to walk upright?

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2019.05.29

It's pretty amazing to see what we can work out these days, such as a distant supernova leading to humanity's ancestors walking upright. Or so we're learning this morning. Pity that we're making such a hash of both the opportunity we've been given and the geologic record at the same time.

rand()m quote

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

—Marcus Tullius Cicero