61 Year Old Woman Had A Baby
A Japanese woman aged 61 gave birth to her grandchild. Her daughter donated an egg a clinic said on August 22, 2008. Surrogate births are rare in Japan and banned by industry groups, but it is not illegal. The Clinic refused to provide information regarding the baby. This procedure has been done because the woman’s daughter has no uterus. Both surrogate mother and baby were fine.
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Humans nearly went extinct 70,000 years ago
Evidence found in DNA suggests that humans came close to extinction roughly 70 000 years ago. The human population at that time may have shrunk as low as 2,000. The human population at that time was reduced to small isolated groups in Africa. Today, more than 6.6 billion people inhabit the globe.
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Shrinking city
Youngstown a city in Ohio United States, has seen its population shrink by more than half over the past 40 years. Youngstown used to be America’s third-largest steel producer; its mill workers earned among the highest factory wages in America. Since the steel industry left town and jobs dried up city’s population has been shrinking.
