The competing endowments of survival
and curiosity are not unique to that most
select creature of nature's creativity for others
of the animal kingdom appear to share those
attributes, or curses if you will and it is not
humankind alone whose sense of adventure as
a cure for boredom or a search for greener
pastures drives evolution. A precedent long
before proto-humans left Africa for other
beckoning continents identified when science
discovered duck-billed fossils dating from
the Cretaceous period 66 million years' distant
left their native habitat in North America on
an urge of discovery, launching themselves
toward distant shores, floating, swimming
endlessly to reach Africa, an example followed
in reverse when homo erectus migrated out of
Africa in overland journeys toward destiny's
call a mere 12,000 years ago, still and forever
mired in the extraordinary evolutionary process.
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