Travel/Nature   Last Chance to See Douglas Adams/Mark Carwardine   Every species of living organism is a uniquely crafted specimen of nature. Be it a bacteria thriving on human waste, wood pecker with beak that drills holes in hard bark of trees in search of insects lurking beneath, Sphinx Moths with ten-inch long proboscis to suck nectar from flowers with nectary situated in its depths or an Influenza virus that rapidly changes its genome   to evade host defence mechanisms. Each is a work of art created over millions of years to deftly exploit the niche of nature it inhabits. The most wonderful aspect of this process of creation of millions of species on earth is the blind creator of these marvels. The creator is a simple law of nature, Evolution by Natural Selection, breathtakingly bewitching in its stark simplicity and mind-jarring in its unfathomably huge powers. It works relentlessly, untiringly, blindly, without forethought, and without an objective. Speci...