9 months
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* Robert C. Dickson

The time has come — darkness and inhaled water are about to yield to light and gasping breaths of air. The ocean will burst, and from the broken waters life will emerge.

In primordial seas a single cell proliferates — loses evanescent gills. An aquatic being now must try to land.

Skin has wrapped itself around a little ocean, in which evolution has been compressed, from nine billion years into nine months.

Behold the newborn — dry and breathing air.

Evolution has recurred.

Man has arrived.