Word: afterthought
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...have written that humankind is an afterthought, a cosmic accident...
...tape again from any early point, you would get a completely different result that wouldn't include human beings. In that sense, every species' appearance is not random, because after it happens it is perfectly explainable, but it's unpredictable. The reason I call humans even more of an afterthought than others is that our lineage is so young and so small. The splitting point between human ancestors and those that gave rise to chimps and gorillas is 6 million to 8 million years ago, and the human species, Homo sapiens, is probably only about a quarter of a million...
Survival is usually what's on a team's mind when it faces the top-ranked team in the country, and correcting mistakes is usually an afterthought. But the Crimson stuck to its game plan of setting up a double hole on offense, passing more accurately, working together on defense and containing San Diego's lethal fast break...
After losing a tough one in game two, game three was an afterthought. Both teams executed well, moving to a 5-5 tie. Springfield then took five of the next six points. Harvard was never able to recover...
...financial institutions. One of the group's goals: to prevent more disasters like the case of Lincoln Savings & Loan, whose chairman, Charles Keating, managed to run up $2.5 billion in losses, driving the California thrift into bankruptcy. With S&Ls foundering almost daily, the gesture seems like an afterthought -- and an undersized one at that...