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Archaeologists show some of the first people to settle the ancient continent of Sahul arrived on the shores of present-day West Papua, some 50,000 years ago.
Os chimpanzés estão entre nossos parentes animais mais próximos, mas a comparação com cérebro humanos mostram que temos uma organização e interconexão diferente entre suas partes, o que nos torna mais sociais e dotados de linguagem falada.
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The Special Operations Executive initiative that recruited female civilians during the second world war went on to inspire similar programmes by other agencies.
(L-R) Mark Stanley as Paulie Hunter, Owen Cooper as Jamie Miller and Stephen Graham as Eddie Miller in Adolescence.
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Einstein Professor for the Comparative Study of Democracy and Authoritarianism, Humboldt University Berlin, and Director, Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS); University of Oxford