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Caves have led to new insights about evolution. The absence of light and scarcity of food limit the number of species that can survive underground. Most common are crickets, beetles and eyeless fish. "We see simple communities that may be made up of only four species," says Tom Poulson, professor of biology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. "But that allows us to look in greater detail at what is going on, say, between predator / and prey." As a result, biologists can study subterranean ecosystems in their entirety -- a feat that often proves impossibly complex aboveground...
...they and their descendants traveled deeper inside and away from sunlight, they began to lose their eyes and develop other sensory organs to compensate. But is this loss an active process or just a question of disuse? "That's been a raging debate ever since Darwin's time," Poulson says. "What we've found is that it's disuse. There is no natural selection to screen out any bad mutations that affect the eyes. So eventually they disappear...
Behind his plain-wrapper exterior lies a poet at heart with a phenomenal memory for verse. Wesley Poulson, chairman of Coldwell Banker, says that he once engaged Telling in a duel to see who could remember more of William Cullen Bryant's Thanatopsis. First Poulson would deliver a line or two, and then Telling. Long after Poulison had given up, Telling was still reciting the 81 line poem. He should certainly know the poem by Edgar A. Guest that graced the cover of the 1934 fall-winter Sears catalog. The last stanza...
According to the attorney's office, there were two accomplices in the crime, including another UCLA student. Kevin Lee Poulson...
...Poulson was not charged, and investigators only know the third member by his computer code name...