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> [“defines domestication as “the human creation of a new form of plant or animal—one that is identifiably different from its wild ancestors and extant wild relatives.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-christian/defines-domestication-as-the-human-creation-of-a-new-form-of-plant-or/)

[David Christian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-christian/)

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## More by David Christian

> [“It was possible to borrow British technology, and increasingly governments began to promote development. By the end of the nineteenth century, governments and large…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-christian/it-was-possible-to-borrow-british-technology-and-increasingly/)

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> [“the conquests of the Achaemenid and Hellenistic dynasties encouraged commercial and intellectual exchanges reaching from central Asia to India to the western Mediterranean. In…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-christian/the-conquests-of-the-achaemenid-and-hellenistic-dynasties-encouraged/)

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> [“So, as networks expand in size, their potential intellectual synergy increases much faster: “larger and denser populations equal faster technological advance.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-christian/so-as-networks-expand-in-size-their-potential-intellectual-synergy/)

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> [“typical modern households live in urban environments where they earn incomes through some form of wage work and buy food produced by others. In…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-christian/typical-modern-households-live-in-urban-environments-where-they-earn/)

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> [“no complex, nonlinear system can be adequately described by dividing it up into subsystems or into various aspects, defined beforehand.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-christian/no-complex-nonlinear-system-can-be-adequately-described-by-dividing/)

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> [Every kid goes to school full of questions about meaning. You know, 'What's my place in the universe? What does it mean to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-christian/every-kid-goes-to-school-full-of-questions-about-meaning-you-know/)

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> [“Both animal and human slaves could be controlled best if kept economically and psychically dependent on their owners.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-christian/both-animal-and-human-slaves-could-be-controlled-best-if-kept/)

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> [“The modern world is ruled by larger and more impersonal forces, from faceless bureaucracies to abstractions such as “inflation,” or “the rule of law.”…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-christian/the-modern-world-is-ruled-by-larger-and-more-impersonal-forces-from/)

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> [“contain into new, durable configurations, which can handle huge energy flows without disintegrating. This, we will see, is the characteristic pattern of all such…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-christian/contain-into-new-durable-configurations-which-can-handle-huge-energy/)

[David Christian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-christian/)

> [We, as extremely complex creatures, desperately need to know this story of how the universe creates complexity and why complexity means vulnerability and fragility.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-christian/we-as-extremely-complex-creatures-desperately-need-to-know-this-story/)

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> [If, in schools, we keep teaching that history is divided into American history and Chinese history and Russian history and Australian history, we're teaching…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-christian/if-in-schools-we-keep-teaching-that-history-is-divided-into-american/)

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> [An egg is a beautiful, sophisticated thing that can create even more sophisticated things, such as chickens. And we know in our heart of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-christian/an-egg-is-a-beautiful-sophisticated-thing-that-can-create-even-more/)

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> [“Earth, for example, is made up of oxygen (almost 50 percent) and smaller amounts of iron (19 percent), silicon (14 percent), magnesium (12.5 percent),”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-christian/earth-for-example-is-made-up-of-oxygen-almost-50-percent-and-smaller/)

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> [“most of human history (chronologically speaking) has taken place in communities quite innocent of state power.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-christian/most-of-human-history-chronologically-speaking-has-taken-place-in/)

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> [“what we can see may constitute no more than 10 percent, and perhaps as little as 1 percent, of the matter in the universe.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-christian/what-we-can-see-may-constitute-no-more-than-10-percent-and-perhaps-as/)

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