The great leap forward

The great leap forward

Similarly, the theory of genome duplication, which was first seriously developed in 1970 by the Japaneseborn geneticist Susumu Ohno (1970), also cannot properly explain the great phenotypic changes that have occurred during the 75 million years since the human and mouse lineages split. Duplications, either of chromosomal regions or of whole genomes, occur naturally, for example, through errors ...

Great leap forward

One of Europe’s rarest small mammals — the flying squirrel — has been given a boost to save it from extinction, sparing the Finnish government from legal action by the European Commission. The Finnish government has changed its law to protect the squirrels and paid out one million euros in compensation to about 400 farmers and landowners who have to curb normal activities for the squirrels’ saf...

China's next great leap forward.

Waiting for the great leap forward.

The Great Leap Forward: Anatomy of a Central Planning Disaster

The Great Leap Forward disaster, characterized by a collapse in grain production and a widespread famine in China between 1959 and 1961, is found attributable to a systemic failure in central planning. Wishfully expecting a great leap in agricultural productivity from collectivization, the Chinese government accelerated its aggressive industrialization timetable. Grain output fell sharply as th...