The Lost World (1995) (edit title/settings)

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• Dr. Richard Levine: Heading up an exhibition to find dinosaurs
• Dr. Ian Malcolm: One of the original characters from Jurassic Park who denies ever being there
• Dr. Sarah Harding: Scientist
• Doc Thorne: A mechanical engineer who quit academia because he hated how impractical it was. Thorne builds all of the equipment the team takes to Isla Sorna.
• Rodriguez: Add a description of this character.
• Arby Benton: He is best friends with Kelly and they both think school is a piece of cake. Many surprising things happen that i wish didnt.arby is also a computer geek
• Kelly Curtis: School aged girl who studies with Dr. Levine
• Lewis Dodgson: A geneticist that specializes in corporate piracy, trying to obtain the InGen technology they used to make the dinosaurs.
• Eddie Carr: Doc Thorne's assisstant, a young man of 22. A brilliant engineer in his own right, he is more conservative than Thorne and builds in redundant systems into the equipment to keep them running in emergencies.
• Señor Guitierrez: Marty Gutierrez, a graduate student in Costa Rica studying animals. Friends with Richard Levine.
• Marty Guitierrez: Friend of Richard Levine. They both have been fellow graduate students in yale.
• Rossiter: Head of Biosyn.
• John Hammond: Billionaire who came up with original idea for cloning dinosaurs in 1st Jurassic Park novel/movie
• George Baselton: A British dinosaur expert helping Dodgson and Biosyn in public relations.
• Howard King: A Biosyn geneticist and Lewis Dodgson's assistant. A promising young scientist.
• Diego: Richard Levine's guide upon first arriving on Isla Sorna. A local Costa Rican.
• Señor Rodríguez
• Henry
• Elizabeth Gelman
• Richard Owen
• Señor Gandoca
• Señor Levine
• Darwin: An English Naturalist.
• Horner: John Horner, the discoverer and namer of the Maiasaurus and proponent of the idea that dinosaurs were caring parents.
• Jerry
• Ed James
• George Schaller
• Tim
• Beverly
• Alan Grant
• Baron Georges Cuvier
• Señor Dodgson
• Jeff
• Lew Dodgson
• Phil
• John Roxton
• Dr. Harding: Best character in the book, she shows get up and go and had the more appealing back story. She's described as quite different to the way she was presented on the screen and actually, more likeable.
• Señor Thorne
• Jack Thorne
• Makena
• Michael Crichton

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• “We are stubborn, self-destructive comformists. Any other view of our species is just a self congratulatory delusion.”

  Ian Malcolm

• “People worry about losing species diversity in the rain forest. But what about intellectual diversity - our most necessary resource ? That's disappearing faster than trees. But we havent figured that out, so now we're planning to put 5 billion people together in cyberspace. And it'll freeze the entire species. Everything will stop dead in its tracks. Everyone will think the same thing at the same time.”

  Ian Malcolm

• “You know, there's a reason why people like morphine.”

  Ian Malcom

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• “What makes you think human beings are sentient and aware? There’s no evidence for it. Human beings never think for themselves, they find it too uncomfortable. For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told—and become upset if they are exposed to any different view.

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• “In evolutionary theory, this is called the Red Queen phenomenon,” Malcolm said. “Because in Alice in Wonderland the Red Queen tells Alice she has to run as fast as she can just to stay where she is. That’s the way evolutionary spirals seem. All the organisms are evolving at a furious pace just to stay in the same balance. To stay where they are.”

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• “All your life, other people will try to take your accomplishments away from you. Don’t you take it away from yourself.”

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• Heisenberg uncertainty principle: that whatever you studied you also changed.

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• Bad things cluster. Things go to hell together. That’s the real world.”

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• All your life people will tell you things. And most of the time, probably ninety-five percent of the time, what they’ll tell you will be wrong.”

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• Other animals fight for territory or food; but, uniquely in the animal kingdom, human beings fight for their ‘beliefs.’ The reason is that beliefs guide behavior, which has evolutionary importance among human beings. But at a time when our behavior may well lead us to extinction, I see no reason to assume we have any awareness at all. We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.

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• People aren’t studying the natural world any more, they’re mining it. It’s a looter mentality.

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• “The essence of verification is multiple lines of reasoning that converge at a single point.”

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• “Perhaps not,” Levine said. “But absence of proof is not proof of absence.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Costa Rica
• Africa
• Berkeley
• Isla Sorna
• San Francisco, CA
• San Jose CA

Organizations edit see section history

• Biosyn: Add a description of this organization.

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Series & Lists edit see section history

Preceded by The Making of Jurassic Park.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Michael Crichton (Author)

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Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: PS3553.R48 L67 1995b
• Dewey: 813.54

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• Books › Mystery & Thrillers › Authors, A-Z › ( C ) › Crichton, Michael
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction › Action & Adventure
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction › Horror
• Books › Mystery & Thrillers › Thrillers
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary
• Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Science Fiction

Movie Connections edit see section history

• The Lost World: Jurassic Park (IMDb): 1997 film directed by Steven Spielberg. Only loosely based on the Novel.

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