Technology has to be invented or adopted.

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Australia is the most isolated continent.

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I personally am not conscious of my accent.

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Biology is the science. Evolution is the concept that makes biology unique.

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I'd rather spend my leisure time doing what some people call my work and I call my fun.

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Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation.

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Why did human development proceed at such different rates on different continents for the last 13,000 years?

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We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.

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All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use or else abandon practices of considerable use.

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Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction - namely, complete isolation from other humans for 10,000 years.

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