Take air quality in the United States today: It's about 30 percent better than it was 25 years ago, even though there… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
[T]he values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values that were previously the source of their greatest… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
I'd rather spend my leisure time doing what some people call my work and I call my fun. — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
People often ask, "What is the single most important environmental population problem facing the world today?" A flip answer would be, "The… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
“With the rise of chiefdoms around 7,500 years ago, people had to learn, for the first time in history, how to encounter… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different continents - seems to me to be attributable… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
In much of the rest of the world, rich people live in gated communities and drink bottled water. That's increasingly the case… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Some people have much more pull than other people. But when I say that the public has ultimate responsibility, I'm not saying… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island isolated in the Pacific Ocean — once the island got into trouble, there was no… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
With the MacArthur grant, I realized that people have high expectations of me, that they were placing me in this group of… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Besides justifying the transfer of wealth to kleptocrats, institutionalized religion brings two other important benefits to centralized societies. First, shared ideology or… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
But this was the only way of life that humans knew for their first 6m years on the planet. In giving it… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Bird taxonomy is a difficult field because of the severe anatomical constraints imposed by flight. There are only so many ways to design a… — Jared Diamond Copy Share
What did the last Easter Islander say as he chopped down the last tree? The Easter Islanders didnt have anthropologists. — Jared Diamond Copy Share
“We come to conquer this land by his command, that all may come to a knowledge of God and of His Holy Catholic Faith;… — Jared Diamond Copy Share
“With the rise of chiefdoms around 7,500 years ago, people had to learn, for the first time in history, how to encounter strangers regularly… — Jared Diamond Copy Share
Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation. — Jared Diamond Copy Share
No government is here forever. And there are other forces - the most potent force in our society, in fact, big business - doing… — Jared Diamond Copy Share
“Those parasites pass to a person from an eaten animal, but the virus causing laughing sickness (kuru) in the New Guinea highlands used to… — Jared Diamond Copy Share
“...invokes the supposed stimulatory effects of their homeland's cold climate and the inhibitory effects of hot, humid, tropical climates on human creativity and energy.… — Jared Diamond Copy Share
“Throughout the Americas, diseases introduced with Europeans spread from tribe to tribe far in advance of the Europeans themselves, killing an estimated 95 percent… — Jared Diamond Copy Share
History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples' environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves — Jared Diamond Copy Share
We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reason that psychologists study the minds… — Jared Diamond Copy Share
I decided that now is the time to start doing the things that really interest me and I find important. It was in the… — Jared Diamond Copy Share
“As a result of that confined distribution, peoples who pride themselves on being civilized have always viewed writing as the sharpest distinction raising them… — Jared Diamond Copy Share
Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tribe to another, far in advance of Europeans themselves, and killed… — Jared Diamond Copy Share
In fact, everywhere in the world there has been a flux between big and small societies. Big political units are constantly being formed, later… — Jared Diamond Copy Share
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