TEXT AND WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHY ©JIM ROBERTSON

I could begin this historical
overview with the Big Bang and the
spreading out of all matter throughout the once-empty universe, followed by the resultant formation of
stars and the planets which took up
orbit around them, but for the sake
of promised brevity, I’ll skip ahead a
few billion years and focus on the
fully-formed, sufficiently-cooled
Earth. And as far as the ongoing
human-driven extinction spasm, our
story must skip on to the final few
moments of a12-hour timescale.
If you’re with me so far, we’re talking about the arrival of the most cunning, ruthless, self-aggrandizing.
overly-intelligent primate species
ever to reach the dead-end at which
we now find ourselves, thanks to
hunting. Hunting and meat-eating in
general.
Evolution is the process through
which dinosaurs sprouted wings and…

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