The Government has offered Australia's three mobile operators, and vividwireless, renewal of their existing spectrum allocated on 15 year licences in the late 90s and early 2000s at set prices, while the Government expects to rake in $3 billion.
• Weight and onset of menopause will increase by about 1%
• Height and age at first childbirth will decrease by about 1%
• Cholesterol levels will decrease by about 4%
The conclusions of the study will be reported in an upcoming issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
The ScienceNOW article states, “These slow rates of evolution are on par with what evolutionary biologists see in other species' traits.”
Dr. Stearns comments, "The take home message from this is that the women of Framingham are pretty average--they're just like the other plants and animals other evolutionary biologists have studied.” [ScienceNOW]
The researchers also stated that their data only applies to women of northern European descent. They will be performing further research to determine if these conclusions hold, in general, for all women.
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