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...That’s where she found herself in 1936, a 23-year-old aspiring surrealist, when she met Picasso and his mistress, the artist Dora Maar, at the Café de Flore....
...Flores describes the league as a “plantation” in which white owners profit off a labour force that is about 70 per cent black....
...The ancestry of Homo sapiens is less clear-cut now, while its takeover of the planet, complicated by previously unknown human species, looks less inexorable....
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...The original discovery led to a debate between palaeontologists who proposed that the fossils represented nothing more than a modern human with pathological dwarfism and those who favoured a previously unknown...
...A fascinating target, Pääbo says, would be Homo floresiensis, nicknamed “the Hobbit” – a dwarf hominin that lived on the Indonesian island of Flores, perhaps as recently as 12,000 years ago....
...These manage a vast and unknown quantity of properties and wealth, mostly kept off the Vatican’s official balance sheets....
...Some varieties of them – the Neanderthals, the so-called hobbits of Flores, and the recently identified Denisovans – became extinct....
...“Internationally, though, he is a relative unknown, and that is going to be a big challenge for him.”...
...It contains almost no professional actor: the writer-director Gianni di Gregorio takes the main role, pals and unknowns nearly all the rest. And the story? There barely is one....
...But language and symbolism as we use them are unknown in any other animal, and are part of a system of behaviour which, with fuzziness at the edges, can be characterised as unique....
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