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Then the number rang again, and then a third time, before Schenk finally put his things down and answered the phone.
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Moreover, as the chart shows, the rate of change has speeded up over the course of that period. (The sudden fall-off at the end is caused because the linkage-disequilibrium method cannot easily detect very recent mutations, rather than by a sudden reduction in the rate of evolution.) The researchers put this acceleration down to two things.
ECONOMIST: Human evolution
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"It could come down to some of the littlest things, what I'm willing to put myself through, " Favre said.
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If they fail to strike a deal, post-war Germany's second grand coalition risks going down in history as a failure, for there will be little time to put things right before the end of its term.
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