Did a fair amount of reading of various periodicals today accompanied by quite a bit of thinking, generally of a depressing nature. Then cheered up considerably upon reading this, quoted from Henry Gee in a review of his book A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Chapters: 'Against the backdrop of geological time the sudden rise of humanity is of negligible significance.'
Sort of puts it in proportion, really.
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