Children of Time is a 2015 science fiction novel by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
In the distant future, humanity seeks to create new habitats for itself on distant planets, terraforming them and seeding them with life. Dr. Avrana Kern is heading one such project, orbiting the tentatively named "Kern's World", where the plan is to release monkeys 
infected with a nanovirus that will accelerate their evolution. Through an act of sabotage from an anti-technology group that has also destroyed much of Earth, the monkeys are never released, and the virus instead infects a species of spider, Portia labiata. The book follows the evolution of the spiders and their eventual civilisation, as well as a remnant of humanity that fled to Kern's World hoping to find paradise.
also children of ruin and children of memory, the sequels, are really good
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Went to go out in the parking lot at the gym for a vape break, ran into a New Year's newbie young(er) woman trying to get in to ask about joining. (There's no staff on weekends)She asked about the staff hours. Without thinking about it because I was checking for all my pockets before I left, I ask her if she can wait and I'll give her a pic of the staff schedule hours and then I can text it to her. Didn't even think about how "oh you're not supposed to go inside as a not-member." I'll give you a pic of the staff hours and then it's all good.
She read me as a guy. (shut up, she definitely did.)
Without thinking of that and how I offered to take the pic for her, realized she probably thought I'm trying to get her number and hit on her
Feel really sad and gross once I realized that
Like jfc honey, I'm so sorry, I (kinda) like women too but you had no clue and I swear I wasn't a creep
Also if I had referred you for a membership that'd be like forty bucks for me lmao