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Few Quotes by Jared Diamond
- 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…
- Throughout history, adultery has had few rivals as a cause of murder and human misery. The reason we tend to resemble our mates is that…
- Measles and TB evolved from diseases of our cattle, influenza from a disease of pigs, and smallpox possibly from a disease of camels. The Americas…
- AIDS and malaria and TB are national security issues. A worldwide program to get a start on dealing with these issues would cost about $25…
- 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…
- Twelve thousand years ago, everybody on earth was a hunter-gatherer; now almost all of us are farmers or else are fed by farmers. The spread…
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