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- All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use or else abandon practices of considerable use.
- Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, as of tomorrow, technology won't create problems. Technology…
- 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…
- The southward advance of native African farmers with Central African crops halted in Natal, beyond which Central African crops couldn't grow - with enormous consequences…
- We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.
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