Now at last he found himself in the thick of things--a Nobel Prize race between two teams of researchers making pioneering discoveries about human reproductive hormones.

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Whether filming hippos in the clear water of Mzima Spring, flamingo chicks in a dried-out soda lake or the complex layers of life within a massive baobab tree, the Roots always let their subjects tell their own stories making astonishing discoveries along the way.

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The team is more concerned about getting its sample handling procedures right than making significant new discoveries.

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In the process, they're making some personal discoveries as well.

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Still, though, making use of those discoveries was hard.

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The Times article makes much of the difficulty of making this work in an area like mental illness, where discoveries have been few and far between.

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