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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 from the countryside…
- It invites a search for ultimate causes: why were Europeans, rather than Africans or Native Americans, the ones to end up with guns, the nastiest…
- Eurasia ended up with the most domesticated animal species in part because it's the world's largest land mass and offered the most wild species to…
- Forced to choose between limiting population or trying to increase food production, we chose the latter and ended up with starvation, warfare, and tyranny.
- 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…
- The main thing that gives me hope is the media. We have radio, TV, magazines, and books, so we have the possibility of learning from…
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