"The rate of human invention is faster, and……" — Jared Diamond
"The rate of human invention is faster, and the rate of cultural loss is slower, in areas occupied by many competing societies with many individuals and in contact with societies elsewhere."
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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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Recent discoveries about apes suggest, however, that a gorilla or common chimp stands at least as good a chance being…
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In parts of Montana, salt concentrations in soil water, have reached those double those of seawater.
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In contrast [to trees and fish], oil, metals, and coal are not renewable; they don't reproduce, sprout, or have sex…
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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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Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on…
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Friends, there are many areas in which I need encouragement, but worrying is not one of them. I worry the…
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I am concerned because even in the past two years that were the jubilee years, I have seen evident signs…
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Genetic modification has many different areas, for example in medicine, and Britain is at the leading edge of this new…
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The nature of music is mysterious and so much so that it generates strong emotions within us. It moves along…
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You have an impeccable argument if you said that Singapore, Hong Kong, and Tokyo are food capitals. They have a…
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I have certain physical features that I favor over others. We all have our areas.
— Christina Aguilera
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I don't know really, it doesn't feel like it has changed to me but I think to have to move…
— Jo Brand
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Always, always powder your T-zone and the lines going from your nose down around your mouth so you don't look…
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