The Lost World: Dr. Malcom Dr. Ian Malcom was a scientist, a hermit, and a bit of a grump. He kept to himself mostly except when he had to make speeches and lectures. His only friend in the beginning of the book was Sara Harding, a young outdoorsy women, very athletic, she was a nurse for Ian when he hurt his leg from going to that strange island. After that Dr. Malcom was disabled he needed a cane to walk around, although with some hard work and a little determination he could have overcome his disability as he did later on in the book as part of preparation for his departure for the island. He had a theory, the "extinction theory", he thought that little diffrences in one animal such as one animal evolving to better suit its climate could be catastrphic for everything. He though perhaps man was here to screw up the earth enough so that all life is gone, the same thing that happend to the dinosaurs and then millions of years later another species would rule over it, and it would keep going on and on.
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A composite image from the following wikimedia fre...Dr.Malcom was against going to the island from the start. He had the experience of already going to a similar one and that left him with a disabled leg.
He was forced to go when his funder for there trip and the lead man in it had jumped the gun and left without them to just check out the island, he got himself in trouble and the others thought he was in mortal danger. They arrived there to find him without any food or equipment except for his satellite phone and he said he was,"doing fine." When they got there they set up camp so to speek and...