Earth Log 0011 The Short Story of How We Came About

For readers who want to dig in, the detailed entries — #0003 through #0010 — remain in the corpus, with the references, the disputed claims, and the working uncertainties intact.

This is the short story of how you came to be. Not how you, personally — though that comes into it at the end. How any human being came to exist, as the kind of animal we are, on the kind of planet we live on, in the kind of universe that contains us.