Some millions of years ago, our ancestors learned the trick of standing upright. This made it much easier to reach the bottles on the top shelf and surely aided our progress towards splitting the atom.
It also made us more vulnerable. Giving birth became more perilous. Our infants - needing to be born before that skull gets any bigger - are quite helpless for the longest time.
Helpless, we are, and also ruthless. We’re at the mercy of nature; we like to think otherwise.
