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POPSWhy Are Pygmies Short? Because of their short life expectancies, the researchers speculate that pygmies have had to shift their reproductive years forward. The average life expectancy at birth for different pygmy populations ranges from just 16 years to 24 years. Very few pygmy women reach the end of their reproductive period, as only a small percentage survive past age 40.
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POPSHow Darwin won the evolution race Thoughts of money or women might have filled lesser heads. Alfred Russel Wallace was made of different stuff, however. He began thinking about disease and famine; about how they kept human populations in check; and about recent discoveries indicating that the earth's age was vast. How might these waves of death, repeated over aeons, influence the make-up of different species, he wondered?
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POPSindonesia`s Orangutan orphans at school from that article: "At the beginning of the 20th century, while Indonesian human population was increasing from around 10 million to over 200 million, the orangutan population was dwindling by more than 90%. Today, Indonesian and Malaysian orangutans are only 65.000 and, either they are men or monkeys, they need to be saved. Many factors are actually threatening their survival: first, the loss of their natural habitat and the fragmentation of the forests; second, the spread of diseases; third, the increased hunting of orangutans for meat, babies, skulls or penises."
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POPSMuslim leaders advise on faith in space Malaysian astronaut Dr Sheikh Musztaphar Shukor, a Muslim, flying to the Space Station, on a Soyuz, has been given a guideline by the Malaysian Govt, which defines Muslim Practice in orbit. When to have dawn prayers, where Mecca is. I thought Mecca was always to the East. Perhaps it details the dynamics of a pirouette.
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