A dog mother doing her best. GILLIAN ANDERSON
Despite what Donald Trump’s science advisers will tell you, evolution is a very real phenomenon. This upsets biblical literalists, who believe that man was created by a mythical father figure who has magical powers and yet somehow decides to live in the clouds instead of, say, Bali. (Women, of course, were created as a sort of companionate afterthought.) To those not fully indoctrinated in biblical teachings, this theory of life sounds patently insane.
But evolution is kind of nutty, too. Not because humans evolved from an apelike ancestor (how can that be hard to believe? I personally know several very apelike people), but because the Pekinese in my old boss’s handbag evolved from a goddamn wolf.
