正文 26 THE STUFF OF LIFE

IF YOUR TWO parents hadn’t bonded just when they did—possibly to the sed, possiblyto the nanosed—you wouldn’t be here. And if their parents hadn’t bonded in a preciselytimely manner, you wouldn’t be here either. And if their parents hadn’t done likewise, andtheir parents before them, and so on, obviously and indefinitely, you wouldn’t be here.

Push backwards through time and these aral debts begin to add up. Go back just eightgeions to about the time that Charles Darwin and Abraham Lin were born, andalready there are over 250 people on whose timely couplings your existence depends.

tinue further, to the time of Shakespeare and the Mayflower Pilgrims, and you have nofewer than 16,384 aors early exgiic material in a way that would,eventually and miraculously, result in you.

At twenty geions ago, the number of people procreating on your behalf has risen to1,048,576. Five geions before that, and there are no fewer than 33,554,432 men andwomen on who……(内容加载失败!)

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