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For the source of any characteristic so widespread and uniform as this adaptation to environment we must go back to the very…
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From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment.
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History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another.
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In fact, the history of North America has been perhaps more profoundly influenced by man's inheritance from his past homes than by…
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No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only…
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America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth's skeleton.
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With every throb of the climatic pulse which we have felt in Central Asia,, the centre of civilisation has moved this way…
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Man could not stay there forever. He was bound to spread to new regions, partly because of his innate migratory tendency and…
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Thus the races, though alike in their physical response to climate, may possibly be different in their mental response because they have…
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Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers.
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A journey of four hundred and thirty miles can be made in any part of the United States, but in Turkey it…
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As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a…
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I have long held an opinion, almost amounting to conviction, in common I believe with many other lovers of natural knowledge, that…
— Michael Faraday
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Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin.
— Jean-Philippe Rameau
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People frequently ask me why I devote so much time to seeking out facts about man’s past…the past shows clearly that we…
— Louis Leakey
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After the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was organized, there were only two churches upon the earth. They were known…
— George Q. Cannon
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What a dull universe it would be if everything in it conformed to our expectations, if it held nothing to surprise or…
— Steven Pinker
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The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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...the nervous systems of other animals were not artificially constructed - as a robot might be artificially constructed - to mimic the…
— Peter Singer
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What we want is another sample of life, which is not on our tree of life at all. All life that we've…
— Paul Davies
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According to the now almost universally accepted theory, all the races of mankind had a common origin.
— Ellsworth Huntington
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LORE, n. Learning --particularly that sort which is not derived from a regular course of instruction but comes of the reading of…
— Ambrose Bierce
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