Sleeping Beauties

Life innovates constantly, producing perfectly adapted species – but there’s a catch.

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''Hopeful and fascinating.'' THE TIMES

Many animals and plants eke out seemingly unremarkable lives. Passive, constrained, modest, threatened. Then, in a blink of evolutionary time, they flourish spectacularly. Once we start to look, these ‘sleeping beauties’ crop up every...