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...Losos said that as the lizards became more arboreal in an attempt to avoid the predator, natural selection would favor shorter-legged lizards, who would be more adept at maneuvering in trees...
...more months of study confirmed that the surviving lizards were now shorter-legged than those on the predator-free islands...
...Ropeik and others call "optimism bias," the thing that makes us glower when we see someone driving erratically while talking on a cell phone, even if we've done the very same thing, perhaps on the very same day. We tell ourselves we're different, because our call was shorter or our business was urgent or we were able to pay attention to the road even as we talked. What optimism bias comes down to, however, is the convenient belief that risks that apply to other people don't apply...
...assigned to stifle the opposing teams’ top scoring threats.This year, there is no sure thing at the three spot for Sullivan—just a lot of options.One of those options is sophomore Andrew Pusar, who saw only limited action last year. Think Beal, but three inches shorter and fifteen pounds lighter. A forward in a guard’s body, Pusar plays what Sullivan has referred to as “a junkyard-kind of game.” On defense, he is capable of guarding another offense’s playmaker and creating havoc for opposing...
...missed all but three games last season with a foot injury and is the best Ivy matchup Harvard will face in the low post this year. Both Princeton and Brown will have trouble containing the Crimson on the low block, with Moretzsohn posing a particularly difficult challenge for shorter defenders.Most crucial, however, is whether Harvard can overcome the offensive inconsistency that doomed the Crimson in January and February of last year. Harvard had the talent to stay atop the Ivy heap last year, but never managed to put together two halves of solid basketball against the league?...