Considers environmental and life-style factors in natural selection during the three hundred thousand generations that separate us from a great ape ancestor.

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List of Existing Scenarios initiatives in South Africa

Global water resources are becoming an increasingly important issue. This paper is dedicated to outlining some of the significant technology drivers affecting world water resources over the next fort

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This article provides a brief overview of Policing 2020: Exploring the Future of Crime, Communities, and Policing, a book-length FWG product that brings together a collection of essays examining curr

Investigates how futures research is being used in innovation systems. The linkage between futures research and innovation has been well established. More specifically, the use of futures research wi

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