My Chest Swells With Pride

Herewith a paragraph from the Smithsonian magazine (January 2012), introducing a clutch of brief articles on what they dub evotourism. The Evo there stands for evolution.

And what a wild ride it’s been. Some 3.5 billion years separate the first primordial microbes and the emergence of a species capable of creating the Taj Mahal, Pride and Prejudice, and “Monday Night Football.”