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Here’s a really nice illustration of a very important principle of evolution.
While we’re talking about good illustrations of evolution, have you seen the Line Drawing Test before?

Here’s a really nice illustration of a very important principle of evolution.

While we’re talking about good illustrations of evolution, have you seen the Line Drawing Test before?

#evolution #science #facts

∞ January 16, 2012 at 10:00pm

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∞ October 18, 2011 at 05:34pm

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∞ October 18, 2011 at 05:32pm

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∞ October 18, 2011 at 05:30pm

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∞ October 18, 2011 at 05:29pm

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∞ October 18, 2011 at 05:27pm

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crookedindifference:

Statistics of the Genocide

The Rwandan Genocide of 1994 was a truly traumatic and horrifying event. It was one of the most brutal acts of murder ever committed.

Over the course of 100 days from April 6 to July 16 1994, an estimated 800,000 to 1 million Tutsis and some moderate Hutus were slaughtered in the Rwandan genocide. A recent report has estimated the number to be close to 2 million.

During this period of terrible slaughter, more than 6 men, women and children were murdered every minute of every hour of every day. This brutally efficient killing was maintained for more than 3 months.

There are between 300,000 to 400,000 survivors of the genocide

Between 250,000 and 500,000 women were raped during the 100 days of genocide. Up to 20,000 children were born to women as a result of rape.

More than 67% of women who were raped in 1994 during the genocide were infected with HIV and AIDS. In many cases, this resulted from a systematic and planned use of rape by HIV+ men as a weapon of genocide.

There are 10 times as many widows than widowers – almost 50,000 widows of the genocide.

Nearly 100,000 survivors are aged between 14 and 21, of which 60,000 are categorised as very vulnerable.

75,000 of survivors were orphaned as a result of the genocide.

Of those that survived the genocide over half the children stopped their schooling, because of poverty.

40,000 survivors are still without shelter, many whose homes were destroyed in the genocide.

7 in 10 survivors earn a monthly income of less than 5000 Rwandan Francs (Equivalent to 8 (eight) American Dollars)