Stoic and laconic soldier Sergeant Todd (a fine and credible performance by the ever reliable Kurt Russell) gets dumped on a desolate remote planet after he's deemed obsolete by ruthless and arrogant Colonel Mekum (deliciously played to the slimy hilt by Jason Isaacs), who has Todd and his fellow soldiers replaced with a new advanced breed of genetically engineered combatants. Todd joins a peaceful ragtag community of self-reliant outcasts and has to defend this community when the new soldiers arrive for a field exercise. Director Paul W.S. Anderson, working from a smart and provocative script by David Webb Peoples, depicts a chilling vision of a bleak, cold and harsh possible near future while maintaining a snappy pace and a tough, gritty tone throughout. Moreover, Anderson handles moving moments of humanity well (Todd's struggle to get in touch with his previously repressed feelings is genuinely poignant) and stages the stirring action scenes with rip-roaring gusto. Russell gives a strong and impressive almost pantomime portrayal of Todd; he conveys a lot of emotion without saying much and instead does the majority of his acting through his body movements and facial expressions. Bang-up supporting turns by Jason Scott Lee as brutish rival soldier Caine 607, Connie Nielson as the compassionate Sandra, Sean Pertwee as the kindly Mace, Jared and Taylor Thorne as mute little boy Nathan, Gary Busey as crusty seasoned veteran Captain Church, Michael Chiklis as the jolly Johnny Pig, and Brenda Wehle as the sensible Mayor Hawkins. Better still, this film makes a profound and significant statement about the spiritual cost of being a merciless soldier and the importance of intellectual strength over physical might. David Tattersall's polished cinematography, Joel McNeely's rousing full-bore orchestral score, and the first-rate rate special effects all further enhance the overall sterling quality of this superior science fiction/action hybrid outing.
It's 1996 year zero of Adam Project. Orphans are raised from babies to soldiers. Sgt. Todd 3465 (Kurt Russell) leads his men in various wars. Years afterward, Col. Mekum (Jason Isaacs) has created genetically engineered superior soldiers. Capt. Church (Gary Busey) insists on a real fight. Caine 607 (Jason Scott Lee) wins a three on one combat but Todd is able to gouge out one of Caine's eye. The older soldiers are reduced to menial jobs while Todd's body is abandoned in a wind-swept waste dump planet. He is taken in by the inhabitants Sandra (Connie Nielsen) and Mace (Sean Pertwee). The inhabitants are crash survivors ignored by the dump ships. The community decides to push out Todd. When Mekum comes to clear the planet, Todd comes to the rescue.I really like the concept and the start of this movie. However the society on the planet adds very little. Todd's development is clunky at best. His relationship with Sandra and her husband Mace is somewhat of a mystery. I can't tell if the movie is trying to gin up a romance. It would be much better to concentrate on their son and Todd. Todd could be a Frankenstein monster to the boy. It would probably be easier to not make the mom so hot. They shot a lot and blow up a lot of stuff for the final act. It's passable action but felt relatively repetitive.
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Termites have developed a wide array of defensive mechanisms. One of them is the mandibulate soldier caste that crushes or pierces their enemies. However, in several lineages of Termitinae, soldiers have long and slender mandibles that cannot bite but, instead, snap and deliver powerful strikes to their opponents. Here, we use morphological and molecular evidence to describe Roisinitermes ebogoensis Scheffrahn, gen. & sp. n. from near Mbalmayo, Cameroon. Soldiers of R. ebogoensis are unique among all other kalotermitid soldiers in that they possess snapping mandibles. The imago of R. ebogoensis is also easily distinguished from all other Kalotermitidae by the lack of ocelli. Our study reveals a new case of parallel evolution of snapping mandibles in termites, a complex apparatus responsible of one of the fastest biological acceleration rates measured to date.
Termites are extremely abundant (Martius 1994, Eggleton et al. 1996) and colonies may contain millions of individuals attracting a wide variety of predators (Deligne et al. 1981). Additionally, termites experience strong intra- and inter-specific competition (Levings and Adams 1984, Thorne and Haverty 1991). To combat against the plethora of agonistic opponents, termites have developed a rich array of defensive strategies. The most important defenses are expressed in the soldier caste that is ancestral to all extent termites (Roisin 2000).
Soldiers are specialized sterile colony defenders possessing exaggerated morphology of the head and mandibles (Prestwich 1984). One of their most intriguing defenses is exemplified by long and slender snapping mandibles (Deligne et al. 1981). The snapping mandibles are paired with muscles to store potential energy which, when released, delivers a powerful strike producing one of the fastest accelerations known among animals (Seid et al. 2008). All termite species with snapping soldiers described so far belong to the Termitinae (Bourguignon et al. 2017), suggesting that snapping soldiers evolved several times independently within this subfamily. Alternatively, soldiers with snapping mandibles might have evolved once, and independently reverted to a biting strategy in several lineages.
Holotype. Soldier from colony UF no. AFR3327. CAMEROON: Ebogo II, (+3.37723N, +11.46135E), 647 m elev., 18FEB18, col. Raphael Onana, AFR3327 ca. 500 alates, 50 soldiers, and many pseudergates, nymphs, larvae, and eggs. Paratypes. CAMEROON, Ebogo II (+3.38273N, +11.46190E), 664 m elev., 10DEC2016, col. Jan Šobotník and collaborators, AFR2982 4 soldiers (1 damaged), one female dealate, and 46 brachypterous nymphs.
Kalotermitids inhabit a single woody item and are largely unable to move to a new food source once the original is exhausted. The lone exception is Paraneotermes simplicicornis that builds underground galleries connecting several wood pieces (Light 1937). The ability to feed on sound wood represents a defensive adaptation in itself as the hard food source acts as an efficient physical barrier against intruders. Kalotermitids thus show low soldier-to-worker ratios (see Haverty 1977) and soldiers reach a high level of polymorphism, reflected especially in the development of the headcapsule and mandibles. Some genera such as Bicornitermes, Cryptotermes, Eucryptotermes, Calcaritermes, or Glyptotermes, possess very short mandibles and a plug-like headcapsule to prevent intruder entry into a nest gallery (phragmosis). In C. cryptognathus from Jamaica, the mandibles are reduced to small stubs that do not project beyond the frontogenal boundaries of the head capsule, and therefore cannot be used to bite opponents (Scheffrahn et al. 1998). Some other genera (e.g., Bifiditermes, Epicalotermes, Incisitermes, Kalotermes, Neotermes) possess long mandibles with robust dentition (crushing mandibles sensuPrestwich 1984) used to injure an opponent mechanically. This is often combined with release of defensive secretions originating in the labial glands (Šobotník et al. 2010, Sillam-Dussès et al. 2012). Epicalotermes pakistanicus has particularly long and serrated mandibles (Akhtar 1974). The defensive strategy of Roisinitermes soldiers does not match any of these; instead, Roisinitermes employs a unique strategy of snapping, achieved by long and slender mandibles pressed against each other in a defensive encounter. When this potential energy is released, the left mandible springs over the right and the resultant snap is forced onto the opponent if it is in the path of the strike. This singular mandibular modification was previously known in several lineages of Termitinae (Deligne et al. 1981, Prestwich 1984, Seid et al. 2008), and was portrayed as a defensive strategy unique to this group. Roisinitermes represents the first undisputable evidence of parallel evolution of snapping soldiers.
Our phylogenetic analyses consistently placed Roisinitermes on a long branch, next to N. insularis. Neotermes insularis is a large termite species from Northern Australia with soldiers endowed with biting mandibles of crushing type. The smaller Roisinitermes shares no obvious similarity with N. insularis, supporting its generic status. Currently, the number of mitochondrial genomes available for Kalotermitidae is limited to a handful of genera, and there is a possibility that future phylogenetic analyses will support affinities between Roisinitermes and yet-to-be sampled taxa. In any case, the highly unusual morphology of Roisinitermes suggests that it shares no close relatives among modern Kalotermitidae. Future studies should focus on whether the mechanisms used by soldiers of Roisinitermes to snap are like those of the distantly related Termitinae. 2ff7e9595c
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