Remembering Charles

Hardly any faculty is more important for the intellectual progress of man than ATTENTION. Animals clearly manifest this power, as when a cat watches by a ole and prepares to spring on its prey. (Charles Darwin, The Descen of Man; 1871)

AND

The slightes advantage in one being, at any age or during any season, over those wich it comes int competition, or better adaptation in however slight a degree to the surrounding phsical conditions, will turn the balance.
(Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species; 1859)

WHICH LEADS TO

A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die...
 (Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species; 1859)

AND I FEEL ALL OF THIS CLOSER THAN  AT HOME...  

All citet from: The Fear Index, by Robert Harris; Hutchinson London