"Livestock adopted in Africa were Eurasian species that……" — Jared Diamond
"Livestock adopted in Africa were Eurasian species that came in from the north. Africa's long axis, like that of the Americas, is north/south rather than east/west. Those Eurasian domestic mammals spread southward very slowly in Africa, because they had to adapt to different climate zones and different animal diseases."
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88 Quotes by Jared Diamond
Jared Diamond has 88 quotes on this site.
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Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural…
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In parts of Montana, salt concentrations in soil water, have reached those double those of seawater.
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The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions…
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One way to explain the complexity and unpredictability of historical systems, despite their ultimate determinacy, is to note that long…
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When you have seen the errors in which you live, you will understand the good that we have done you…
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The past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of willful bliss.
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It invites a search for ultimate causes: why were Europeans, rather than Africans or Native Americans, the ones to end…
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Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom…
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You adapt to who you're photographing.
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Adapting is a common natural way for people to adapt to their environment.
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When people move from poor countries to America, they quickly adapt in at least one way - their consumption habits.
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As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.
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Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to…
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In the long run men inevitably become the victims of their wealth. They adapt their lives and habits to their…
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The military has no constant form, just as water has no constant shape - adapt as you face the enemy,…
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The atmosphere of the home is prolonged in the school, where the students soon discover thatin order to achieve some…
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Well-coached teams are never surprised; they can adapt to anything they see.
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