Imagine a completely different kind of story from the one we're enacting. A story for the entire lifetime of a genus. The genus Homo. Think of an outline for such a story. Not three million years of nothingness, followed by an explosive flourishing so violent that it consumes the world in ten thousand years, followed by extinction. That's not a story for the lifetime of a genus. Imagine a different story entirely. A story for tens of millions of years. For hundreds of millions of years. A real story. A story to be enacted. A story whose enacting shapes the lives of those who enact it. A story whose enacting shapes the history of those who enact it. Now imagine that that's the story our ancestors w
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