Enormous trees with trunks forty feet in diameter rose two hundred feet overhead, where they spread their dense leafy canopy, blotting out the sky and perpetually dripping water to the ground below. The pale sun burned away the morning chill and the clinging damp mist, revealing a gigantic silent world.

“Other elements are more critical, and this isīones DAWN CAME TO THE CONGO RAIN FOREST. “What does this do to your timeline?” “For the moment, nothing,” she said. This is a whole new animal, I promise you.” Elliot looked at Ross. Even in black-and-white, it’s not dark enough to be a gorilla, Peter. You know what was the major differential? Skin color. I ran a function to measure where the variation was. It’s not a gorilla, Peter.” “ Then what is it?” “ It’s a transitional form. “ I’m telling you, if this was really a gorilla, it would have showed up. You can never prove it’s not a gorilla-but for my money, it’s not.” “Meaning what?” Elliot asked. If we increase our sample base, we’re going to get more variation, and a larger population interval. The fact is that gorillas show a considerable individual variation in facial structure, just as people do. “But if you want my gut opinion, it is never going to turn out. “ I’ll go another round with it,” Seamans said. Can you get me that?” Karen Ross was nodding yes. I’d like to work with the original digitized matrix. The image has been cleaned up, and that means it’s been regularized the critical stuff has been lost. We had to factor in the computer derivation of that image.

Congo by Michael Crichton