IFTF's Future Now: links for 2007-12-12

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December 12, 2007

Humans are still evolving - and it's happening faster than ever | Science | The Guardian

"In the past 5,000 years, humans have evolved up to 100 times more quickly than any time since the split with the ancestors of modern chimpanzees 6m years ago, a team from the University of Wisconsin found."

(tags: evolution science X2)
To link or not to link? On linkages between Western and Chinese universities « GlobalHigherEd

A Canadian-born professor teaching at Tsinghua University writes about academic linkages between Chinese and Western universities.

(tags: university china globalization X2)
Baseball, Apple Pie...and Mahindra?

(tags: India cars diaspora mobility)
In India, a Big Push Into Small Cars

(tags: India auto mobility)

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