"Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation……" — Jared Diamond
"Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction - namely, complete isolation from other humans for 10,000 years."
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88 Quotes by Jared Diamond
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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 Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North America until the Chicago…
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Not until the beginning of the 20th century did Europe's urban populations finally become self-sustaining: before then, constant immigration of…
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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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Besides justifying the transfer of wealth to kleptocrats, institutionalized religion brings two other important benefits to centralized societies. First, shared…
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