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...shoot it much more simply," he says. "If you focus your energy on the camera, it takes away from the time you have to focus on the performances." In the final cut, he excised the most indulgent scene of the movie--a long, violent fight between Aristotle and Charles Darwin--even though it meant having to take Nicolas Cage, who plays Kaufman, out to dinner. "Nicolas said it would never make the movie, and I couldn't even believe he was thinking this," Jonze says. He's even earnest about his absurdity...
...would sometimes block the line for days. Once, a train was stranded in the middle of the outback for two weeks; the driver shot wild goats to feed the passengers. Even construction of the rest of the line?originally intended to link the South Australian capital of Adelaide to Darwin in the north?has been held up. Work on the southern section started in 1878, only to reach halfway across the continent at Alice Springs 50 years later. And Darwin is still waiting for the first train to arrive. But not for much longer: the 1,420-kilometer section from...
Members of the Chorus of the Boston Cecilia, of which Gould had been a member, opened the ceremony with an anthem composed for the 1882 internment of Charles Darwin in Westminster Abbey...
...biological kingdom, called Archaea (from archaic), to accommodate them. As the name suggests, Archaea may be similar to the very first organisms that populated the earth billions of years ago. The implication: life on our planet may first have arisen, not in a warm tidal pool as Darwin and others theorized, but under conditions of sulfurous, searing heat...
...think this wasn't the case right from the beginning. Evolution provides plenty of examples in which new types of animals emerge not just as single species but as collections of similar species that share many but not all physical attributes. The rich diversity of finches that Charles Darwin discovered in the Galapagos Islands is perhaps the most famous example...