New Guinean

In less than one generation, New Guinean hunter-gatherers who were fighting each other with stone tools were suddenly New Guinean consumer-traders operating computers, flying planes, and running their own small businesses.

Michael Shermer: What I Believe (about Markets and Morals): A Reply to Jerry Coyne & My Critics 2010

In less than one generation, New Guinean hunter-gatherers who were fighting each other with stone tools were suddenly New Guinean consumer-traders operating computers, flying planes, and running their own small businesses.

Michael Shermer: What I Believe (about Markets and Morals): A Reply to Jerry Coyne & My Critics 2010

Walls and tables displayed the masks, shields, and carved wooden figures of primitive African and New Guinean art.

Sudden Rain Maritta Wolff 2009

Rainforest vegetation harbors Gondwanan and New Guinean floral elements, as well as exceptional orchid diversity.

Cape York tropical savanna 2008

The flora is a combination of relict Gondwanan species, autochthonous Australian plants that arose after the breakup of Gondwana and drying of Australia, Indo-Malay plants introduced 15 million years ago when Australia collided with the Sundaland plate, and New Guinean species which made their way across the Torres Strait.

Cape York tropical savanna 2008

The elaborate thatched nests built by New Guinean bowerbirds -- doorways rimmed with berries, iridescent beetle wings or flowers -- may also be an expression of culture.

Culture Club 2007

The hellfire preachers scared their "captive audience" of New Guinean hillbillies out of ages-long ritual practices.

Arts Extra: Village People 2007

Rappaport [9] has described a New Guinean society in which agricultural surplus is taken in leisure when the option of taking it in meat or goods is clearly open.

Limits to Exploitation of Nonrenewable Resources (historical) Earl Cook 2007

Prior to colonization, New Guinean societies varied greatly and changed through time.

Learning from New Guinea Barker, John 2004

In a lively review of David Sloan Wilson's Darwin's Cathedral [NYR, November 7, 2002], Jared Diamond writes: "It will surprise most Jews, Christians, and Muslims to learn that this link between religion and morality is entirely absent in the New Guinean societies of which I have experience."

Learning from New Guinea Barker, John 2004