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Wednesday, August 03, 2005
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  How China runs the world economy
Jul 28th 2005
From The Economist print edition


Global wages, profits, prices and interest rates are increasingly being influenced by events in China




“IF YOU want one year of prosperity, grow grain. If you want ten years of prosperity, grow trees. If you want 100 years of prosperity, grow people.” This old Chinese proverb crudely sums up how the entry of China's massive labour force into the global economy may prove to be the most profound change for 50, and perhaps even for 100, years...

 
Tuesday, August 02, 2005
  ..Eve and Adam were not a couple. It would be a major coincidence if they ever met, and they could well have been separated by tens of thousands of years. As a subsidiary point, there are independent reasons to believe that Eve preceded Adam. Males are more variable in reproductive success than females: where some females have five times as many as other females, the most successful males could have hundreds of times as many children as unsuccessful males. A male with a large harem finds it easy to become universal ancestor. A female, since she is less likely to have a large family, needs a larger number of generations to achieve the same feat. And indeed, today's best 'molecular clock' estimates for their respective dates are about 140,000 years for Eve and only about 60,000 years for Adam...Adam and Eve are honorific titles, not names of particular individuals....

The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution by Richard Dawkins 
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