Big business Quote by Jared Diamond

“No government is here forever. And there are other forces - the most potent force in our society, in fact, big business - doing good for the environment.”

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Bird taxonomy is a difficult field because of the severe anatomical constraints imposed by flight. There are only so many ways to design a…

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What did the last Easter Islander say as he chopped down the last tree? The Easter Islanders didnt have anthropologists.

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“We come to conquer this land by his command, that all may come to a knowledge of God and of His Holy Catholic Faith;…

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“With the rise of chiefdoms around 7,500 years ago, people had to learn, for the first time in history, how to encounter strangers regularly…

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Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation.

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“Those parasites pass to a person from an eaten animal, but the virus causing laughing sickness (kuru) in the New Guinea highlands used to…

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“...invokes the supposed stimulatory effects of their homeland's cold climate and the inhibitory effects of hot, humid, tropical climates on human creativity and energy.…

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“Throughout the Americas, diseases introduced with Europeans spread from tribe to tribe far in advance of the Europeans themselves, killing an estimated 95 percent…

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History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples' environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves

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We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reason that psychologists study the minds…

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I decided that now is the time to start doing the things that really interest me and I find important. It was in the…

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“As a result of that confined distribution, peoples who pride themselves on being civilized have always viewed writing as the sharpest distinction raising them…

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