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Animals Quotes by Jared Diamond
- Why were there far more species of domesticated animals in Eurasia than in the Americas? The Americas harbor over a thousand native wild mammal species,…
- But this was the only way of life that humans knew for their first 6m years on the planet. In giving it up over the…
- Although native Africans domesticated some plants in the Sahel and in Ethiopia and in tropical West Africa, they acquired valuable domestic animals only later, from…
- Thousands of years ago, humans domesticated every possible large wild mammal species fulfilling all those criteria and worth domesticating, with the result that there have…
- Native Americans had only stone and wooden weapons and no animals that could be ridden. Those military advantages repeatedly enabled troops of a few dozen…
- Perhaps our greatest distinction as a species is our capacity, unique among animals, to make counter-evolutionary choices.
More Animals Quotes
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway. — Mary Kay Ash
- For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins… — Diane Ackerman
- One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out… — C.S. Lewis
- What a lonely species we are, searching for signals of life from other galaxies, adopting companion animals, visiting parks and zoos to… — Diane Ackerman
- We have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals? — Brigitte Bardot
- An irrefutable proof that such single-celled primaeval animals really existed as the direct ancestors of Man, is furnished according to the fundamental… — Ernst Haeckel
- I'm not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pat them, but I am intoxicated… — David Attenborough