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Formerly wild animals are being crowded out of their natural habitats and are moving into suburbs and even into big cities?and they’re evolving new ways to cope. Humans are still evolving as well?we’re getting SMARTER. And scientists have discovered that evolution takes place more quickly at the equator.

In the April 22 issue of New Scientist magazine, Bob Holmes quotes ecologist Joel Brown as saying, “It’s the wild west of evolution and ecology.” He?s talking about the way evolution is working in big cities, as animals struggle to adapt to their new environments in order to survive.
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After a long stagnant period under Communism, the Chinese are again striding ahead and may eventually even start inventing things once more. The Chinese invented paper, gunpowder, silk and porcelain and now they claim to have invented noodles?and archeologists have found evidence to back them up.

Steve Connor writes in the Independent that archeologists have discovered a 4,000-year-old bowl containing the remains of a noodle dinner at a site in northwestern China. An analysis of the noodles reveals that they were made from ground millet and were thin, delicate and long, resembling the noodles that are still used in Chinese cooking.
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In 2002, Whitley Strieber published a small book called theKey, which puports to be a conversation with a strange andbrilliant man he encountered in the early hours of themorning in June, 1998 in a hotel in Toronto.

Information in the Key led to the writing of ‘The ComingGlobal Superstorm’ and the film derived from it, ‘The DayAfter Tomorrow,’ which reached half a billion peopleworldwide with its message about the dangers of global warming.

Now another prediction made in the Key, this one completelyrejected by virtually every established scientist when thebook was published, has received important scientificsupport.
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Scientists now know that both male and female homosexuality is genetic. They also know that men’s and women’s brains operate differently. Now they’ve discovered that gays of one sex have brains that function like straight people of the opposite sex, further suggesting that homosexualityis caused by genetic factors, and is not a matter of choice.

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