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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…
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Recent discoveries about apes suggest, however, that a gorilla or common chimp stands at least as good a chance being murdered as…
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In parts of Montana, salt concentrations in soil water, have reached those double those of seawater.
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In contrast [to trees and fish], oil, metals, and coal are not renewable; they don't reproduce, sprout, or have sex to produce…
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The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North America until the Chicago steel girder…
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Not until the beginning of the 20th century did Europe's urban populations finally become self-sustaining: before then, constant immigration of healthy peasants…
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The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions created reverberations…
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One way to explain the complexity and unpredictability of historical systems, despite their ultimate determinacy, is to note that long chains of…
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In economics, we borrowed from the Bourbons; in foreign policy, we drew on themes fashioned by the nomad warriors of the Eurasian…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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An important aspect of the Eurasian worldview is an absolute denial of Western civilization. In the opinion of the Eurasians, the West…
— Unknown Author
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Moreover, they [the Central Asian Republics] are of importance from the standpoint of security and historical ambitions to at least three of…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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America is now the only global superpower, and Eurasia is the globe's central arena. Hence, what happens to the distribution of power…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Ukraine, a new and important space on the Eurasian chessboard, is a geopolitical pivot because its very existence as an independent country…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Livestock adopted in Africa were Eurasian species that came in from the north. Africa's long axis, like that of the Americas, is…
— Jared Diamond
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Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a…
— Gene Tierney
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The Eurasian union is a project meant to preserve the identities of nations and the historic Eurasian community in the new century,…
— Vladimir Putin
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