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Homo sapiens, industrialisation and the environmental mismatch hypothesis
Biological Reviews, Volume 101, Issue 2, Page 580-601, April 2026.ABSTRACT For the vast majority of the evolutionary history of Homo sapiens, a range of natural environments defined the parameters within which selection shaped human biology. Although human‐induced alterations to the terrestrial biosphere have been evident for over 10,000 years, the pace and scale of change has accelerated dramatically since the onset
Daniel P. Longman, Colin N. Shaw
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Revue Internationale d’Éducation de SèvresThis case study sketches leadership negotiation in Solomon Islands, an archipelago in Melanesia. In Melanesia, kastom, church, and institutional domains compete for influence. School leaders work in the institutional domain but must negotiate with kastom
Kabini Sanga, Martyn Reynolds
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How Global Biodiversity Targets Risk Becoming Counterproductive: The Case of Papua New Guinea
Conservation & Society, 2012 Despite the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) defining 20 targets across 5 strategic goals, Target 11, which relates to protected areas, has received the most emphasis from donors, non-government organisations, and governments, as a performance ...
David R Melick, Jeff P Kinch, Hugh Govan
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Ibis, Volume 168, Issue 2, Page 431-450, April 2026.Based on distinctive morphological and vocal characters we describe a new species of jewel‐babbler (genus Ptilorrhoa) from the forested karst of the Southern Fold Mountains in Papua New Guinea. The description is based on camera trap data and is presented in accordance with ICZN Declaration 45.
Iain A. Woxvold +5 more
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Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies, 2014 This article considers prospects for effective development partnership in Solomon Islands following the transition of development assistance from the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI) to bilateral donors in 2013.
Julien Barbara
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Human T-cell Leukemia Virus Type 1 Molecular Variants, Vanuatu, Melanesia
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2005 Four of 391 Ni-Vanuatu women were infected with variants of human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1) Melanesian subtype C. These strains had env nucleotide sequences ≈99% similar to each other and diverging from the main molecular subtypes of HTLV-1 ...
Olivier Cassar +4 more
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Ecology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 3, March 2026.The complete chloroplast genome of Homalomena perplexa, an endemic aroid to Vietnam, was completely sequenced and characterized. In addition, comparative genomic analysis revealed junction variations and phylogenetic analysis confirmed the infrafamilial relationships of Araceae.
Nhat Nam Nguyen +2 more
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, 2014 Melanesia, home to some 7 million people, covers a vast geographic region of the Southwest Pacific, comprising more than ten thousand islands, ranging from New Guinea, the world s second largest at some 785,753 km2, to a myriad of high volcanic islands through to small low atolls, stretching for thousands of kilometres across the Pacific Ocean (Map 1 ...
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New Zealand Journal of Botany, Volume 64, Issue 1, March 2026.A new species of Leptopetalum Hook. & Arn. (Rubiaceae) is segregated from Leptopetalum foetidum (G. Forst.) Neupane & N. Wikstr. Leptopetalum perpusillum Heenan, sp. nov., is distinguished from L. foetidum by its decumbent, low‐growing growth habit, smaller elliptic leaves, short peduncle, compact and few‐flowered inflorescence, and smaller fruit.
Peter B. Heenan
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Scott Waide, Maseratis and EMTV … how a public outcry restored media freedom
Pacific Journalism Review, 2020 Commentary: ‘It’s like we are operating in a bubble,’ says EMTV deputy news editor Scott Waide from Papua New Guinea at the Melanesia Media Freedom Forum (MMFF). ‘But when you start reaching out, talking to others in the region, you find that you are not
Fred Wesley
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