This is almost all that we are. It's hard to determine how much of our individual fates are bound up by this, but this is as close as we can ever get to destiny. Without context I might regard this image as some effort at pop art, or maybe, if I was feeling generous, Russian Constructivism.
I think that the two best books on evolution are The Song of the Dodo by David Quammen and The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins. I don't mean to push Stephen Jay Gould to the side table, because he has some essential observations. In terms of offering the broadest overview and introduction to a subject matter that can boggle the mind, Quammen and Dawkins share a prize.
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