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Population News Thursday December 13th 2007



Africa: Continent's Worst CrisisAfrica: Continent's Worst Crisis
(AllAfrica.com: Tue, 11 Dec) Making life better isn't apparently hard just in Tanzania but is true of people all over Africa. And as in Tanzania, one of its more difficult aspects is rapid urban population growth.


Tuesday, December 11, 2007Tuesday, December 11, 2007
(Hindustan Times: Tue, 11 Dec) A study says the huge population explosion in the past 40,000 years has resulted in faster human evolution compared to the previous six million years.


(AFX UK Focus) 2007-12-11 16:49 GMT: UK fertility rate rises to 1.8 children per woman in 2006, highest since 1980(AFX UK Focus) 2007-12-11 16:49 GMT: UK fertility rate rises to 1.8 children per woman in 2006, highest since 1980
(Interactive Investor: Tue, 11 Dec) LONDON (Thomson Financial) - The UK fertility rate among women rose to 1.8 children per woman in 2006, its highest level since 1980, up from 1.6 in 2001, as the rate of population growth hit its highest since the 1960s, figures from National Statistics showed.


Tanzania multiple birth surpriseTanzania multiple birth surprise
(BBC News: Wed, 12 Dec) Two sets of quads, two triplets sets and twins are born at a Tanzania hospital as experts debate Africa's population.



World Population

Modern times causing human evolution to accelerateModern times causing human evolution to accelerate
(New Scientist: Wed, 12 Dec) Five thousand years ago we were evolving 30 to 40 times faster than ever before, and it's highly likely that we continue to evolve at this super speed today


Courier News Online - HILLSBORO: Township Committee endorses West Trenton line reactivationCourier News Online - HILLSBORO: Township Committee endorses West Trenton line reactivation
(Bridgewater Courier News: Thu, 13 Dec) Township Committee members passed a resolution Tuesday in support of plans by New Jersey Transit to reactivate the 27-mile West Trenton rail line. Since 1982, the West Trenton line, owned by CSX, had halted passenger service and now offers only freight service.


Speedy evolution of human raceSpeedy evolution of human race
(Deepika: Wed, 12 Dec) London, Dec 11 (UNI) The coming generations will have an evolved resistance to diabetes and malaria, thanks to a ever escalating evolution and adaptation rate among humans, new findings suggest.


Human evolution moving at breakneck speedHuman evolution moving at breakneck speed
(Express India: Wed, 12 Dec) Human evolution has been moving at breakneck speed in the past several thousand years, far from plodding along as some scientists had thought, researchers said on Wednesday.


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