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Hundreds of years ago, a handful of European countries colonized whole continents and organized once independent or loosely related peoples into nation states, under a common colonial language.

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They coded correlations in the thickness of gray matter in different parts of the brain using a false color scheme, in which no difference is coded as purple, and any color other than purple indicates a statistically significant correlation.