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proposed as appropriate compensation. This reminds me
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my own health legacy of New Guinea has been a year of malaria and a year of dysentery.
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Europeans have never learned to survive in Australia or New Guinea without their inherited Eurasian technology.
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With the rise of chiefdoms around 7,500 years ago, people had to learn, for the first time in history, how to encounter strangers regularly without attempting to kill them. Part
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why did human development proceed at such different rates on different continents?
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large societies cannot function with band organization and instead are complex kleptocracies.
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Those parasites pass to a person from an eaten animal, but the virus causing laughing sickness (kuru) in the New Guinea highlands used to pass to a person from another person who was eaten. It was transmitted by cannibalism, when highland babies made the fatal mistake of licking their fingers after playing with raw brains that their mothers had just cut out of dead kuru victims awaiting cooking.
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It's the exclusive home of 1,000 of the world's approximately 7,000 languages. It holds the largest number of societies that even in modern times still lay beyond the control of state government or were only recently influenced by state government. Its populations span a range of traditional lifestyles, from nomadic hunter-gatherers, seafarers, and lowland sago specialists to settled Highland farmers, composing groups ranging from a few doz..
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Kleptokrat i mudrii derzhavnii diiach, baron-grabizhnik i gromads'kii dobrochinets' vidrizniaiut'sia lishe miroiu: tobto tim, iaku chastku stiagnenoyi iz virobnikiv danini utrimuie elita i naskil'ki prostoliudu podobaiet'sia gromads'ke vikoristannia, na iake spriamovuiet'sia stiagnena danina.
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The statesman's task is to hear God's footsteps marching through history, and to try to catch on to His coattails as He marches past.
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Negative images of emigration were transformed into positive ones, not by Wakefield in 1830, but by a much broader trans-Atlantic ideological transition around 1815. Its semiotic shape was the partial displacement of the word "emigrant" by more positively loaded words. According to David Hackett Fischer and James C. Kelly, "before 1790, Americans thought of themselves as emigrants, not immigrants. The word immigrant was an Americanism proba..
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Put another way, the chimpanzees' closest relative is not the gorilla but humans.
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Remember that impact is the product of two factors: population multiplied times impact per person.
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