Among Quote by Jared Diamond

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

— Jared Diamond

History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another.

— Ellsworth Huntington

It is clear that history differs from the other disciplines in having an approach and not an area of its own.

— Leonard Krieger

History is the zoology of the human race.

— Franz Grillparzer

Why did human development proceed at such different rates on different continents for the last 13,000 years?

— Jared Diamond

Just as our solar system has a certain idiosyncratic assortment of planets and moons, different from any neighboring system yet categorically equivalent, so each…

— Paul Di Filippo

“It seems logical to suppose that history's pattern reflects innate differences among people themselves. Of course, we're taught that it's not polite to say…

— Jared Diamond

Once we begin to speak of men mixing their labour with the earth, we are in a whole world of new relations between man…

— Raymond Williams

History is all explained by geography.

— Robert Penn Warren

Much of human history can, I think, be described as a gradual and sometimes painful liberation from provincialism, the emerging awareness that there is…

— Carl Sagan

“The different human peoples did not evolve out of a common ancestor; they were each born out of the womb of their own homeland.…

— Anonymous

To each eye, perhaps, the outlines of a great civilization present a different picture. In the wide ocean upon which we venture, the possible…

— Jacob Burckhardt