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...working up step by tiny incremental step to more complexity, more elegance, more adaptive perfection. Each step is not too improbable for us to countenance, but when you add them up cumulatively over millions of years, you get these monsters of improbability, like the human brain and the rain forest. It should warn us against ever again assuming that because something is complicated, God must have done...
HATCHERY In Kikori's rainforest, an unnamed male frog tends eggs laid in hollowed-out vines . LISTEN? It was just after midnight when frog researcher Steve Richards heard a strange melodious whistle amid the patter of rain in the Papua New Guinea cloud forest. The sound swept away the Australian zoologist's exhaustion as he struggled through the thorny vines and stinging nettles covering the remote mountain slope in the Southern Highlands. "When I heard this, I knew it was going to be fantastic," he says. Switching on his tape recorder and headlamp, he moved carefully toward the sound, trying...
...practice,” Nichols said. “So I felt a bit more comfortable taking the shot.” “Nichols has good range and has proven that she can be a threat from the outside,” Walsh added.Harvard did indeed rain on the parade of the Dartmouth seniors, as the Big Green was forced to put its regular starters in to keep the hope of winning the Ivy League title alive. This, in combination with 40 m.p.h. wind gusts that hurt the Crimson’s game, shifted momentum in Dartmouth?...
...freshman forward Annie Ardery added. “[Brown] stepped up as a senior—[it was] a really powerful ending for her four year career.” Brown’s big day came in the midst of biting cold and rain in Hanover. The wet, nasty conditions, however, helped steel the resolve of Harvard, which was fighting to win its first road game of the season and its first in regulation time, as both of the Crimson’s previous two victories came in overtime at Jordan Field...
...that in mind, Murphy kept his poker face, subduing any excitement after being notified of the Big Red’s lead on Saturday.“Thank you very much,” he said simply.SLIP ‘N SLIDEMother Nature offered a steady stream of rain throughout the afternoon, and the verdict was that the recently-installed FieldTurf at Dartmouth’s Memorial Field held up under the conditions. “Quite frankly, with the expectations we had of the weather, we thought we got off really easy,” Murphy said...