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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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When you have seen the errors in which you live, you will understand the good that we have done you by coming…
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The past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of willful bliss.
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It invites a search for ultimate causes: why were Europeans, rather than Africans or Native Americans, the ones to end up with…
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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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An acquaintance of mine, a notary by profession, who, by perpetual writing, began first to complain of an excessive wariness of his…
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Joe Smith and Brigham Young laid out Independence, but very soon thereafter enough citizens of the county collected to drive them off,…
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We scientists have fantasies of being uniquely qualified to make great discoveries. Alas, reality is cruel: most of us are replaceable. For…
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A decision will be made before it's too late or soon thereafter.
— Michael Eisner
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Yeah, I did some small parts in high school and the first year of college and then fairly soon thereafter I settled…
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Dr. Adler had instructed me to always say whatever I was thinking, but this was difficult for me, for the act of…
— Peter Cameron
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In a painful time of my life I went often to a wooded hillside where May apples grew by the hundreds, and…
— Hal Borland
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Beast Books will be longer than conventional long-form magazine articles but shorter than conventional nonfiction books. They will be published digitally and…
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Spiritual beings, either from the beginning or soon thereafter, become what they are to be for ever and ever.
— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
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Shortly after I was born he emigrated to Durban, where members of my mother's family had settled at the turn of the…
— Aaron Klug
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