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.
In the previous entry I began recording events unfolding during my lifetime — conflicts between nations and the uncertainties of the present moment. Those events belong to the immediate history and concerns of our species, which I will continue to document in future logs. In this entry, however, I step much further back in time to describe what we currently understand about our origins, beginning with the origins of the universe.