Business Quote by Charles Darwin

“food production was indirectly a prerequisite for the development of guns, germs, and steel. Hence geographic variation in whether, or when, the peoples of…

— Jared Diamond

The Animals were a very separate and dissonant group at the time. We came from different backgrounds, different areas - we didn't even come…

— Alan Price

“The essence of the tribal lineage was the descent of property through the male line. But producing a male heir under medieval conditions of…

— Nicholas Wade

“Pirenne was quite right that the ancient trading economy continued after the first invasions and the establishment of the mixed Romano-barbarian successor kingdoms. Some…

— Henri Pirenne

Why the New Settlers in Anatolia in 1900 B.C.E., the nomadic Assyrians had become caravan merchants whose extensive trade networks stretched across Anatolia and…

— Brandon McCaw

“Early Near Eastern villages domesticated plants and animals. Uruk urban institutions, in turn, domesticated humans.”

— James C. Scott

Once it was necessary that the people should multiply and be fruitful if the race was to survive. But now to preserve the race…

— Helen Keller

“The dog was the first animal domesticated by Homo sapiens, and this occurred before the Agricultural Revolution.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and…

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

“Perhaps if zoologists would contemplate the wide variations presented by many plants of indubitably one and the same species, and the still wider diversities…

— Asa Gray

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…

— Jared Diamond

“Estimates are that the hunter-gatherers who were all but wiped out by the agricultural revolution numbered around 2 million 12,000 years ago. Agriculture spread…

— Adam Rutherford