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 described the molecule of inheritance — how its four-letter sequence is copied across generations with very high but imperfect fidelity, and how the small errors that creep in during copying are the source of new hereditary variation. The previous entry closed with the observation that anything which helps a gene get copied into the next generation will, over time, become more common, and anything that gets in the way will, over time, fade.