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• Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural selection in…
• Recent discoveries about apes suggest, however, that a gorilla or common chimp stands at least as good a chance being murdered as…
• In parts of Montana, salt concentrations in soil water, have reached those double those of seawater.
• In contrast [to trees and fish], oil, metals, and coal are not renewable; they don't reproduce, sprout, or have sex to produce…
• The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North America until the Chicago steel girder…
• Not until the beginning of the 20th century did Europe's urban populations finally become self-sustaining: before then, constant immigration of healthy peasants…
• The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions created reverberations…
• One way to explain the complexity and unpredictability of historical systems, despite their ultimate determinacy, is to note that long chains of…
• When you have seen the errors in which you live, you will understand the good that we have done you by coming…
• The past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of willful bliss.
• It invites a search for ultimate causes: why were Europeans, rather than Africans or Native Americans, the ones to end up with…
• Besides justifying the transfer of wealth to kleptocrats, institutionalized religion brings two other important benefits to centralized societies. First, shared ideology or…

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