"Twelve thousand years ago, everybody on earth was……" — Jared Diamond
"Twelve thousand years ago, everybody on earth was a hunter-gatherer; now almost all of us are farmers or else are fed by farmers. The spread of farming from those few sites of origin usually did not occur as a result of the hunter-gatherers' elsewhere adopting farming; hunter-gatherers tend to be conservative.... Instead, farming spread mainly through farmers' outbreeding hunters, developing more potent technology, and then killing the hunters or driving them off of all lands suitable for agriculture."
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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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What a lonely species we are, searching for signals of life from other galaxies, adopting companion animals, visiting parks and…
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I talked about adopting a baby when I was 20 years old, before it became 'hip.'
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I was adopting an Ethiopian child, that's not true. My house was haunted, that wasn't true. God, there's been so…
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House and Senate Republicans are now united in adopting earmark bans. We hope President Obama will follow through on his…
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Adopting a new healthier lifestyle can involve changing diet to include more fresh fruit and vegetables as well as increasing…
— Linford Christie
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It has seemed so strange to me that the larger culture, with its own absence of spirit and lack of…
— Linda Hogan
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The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a…
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The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses.
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All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to…
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Is it not amazing that at a time when the rights of humanity are defined and understood with precision, in…
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The only objections that have occurred to me are, 1st that you have loaded yourself with an unnecessary difficulty in…
— Thomas Huxley
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Adopting a central organizing principle means embarking on an all-out effort to use every policy and program, every law and…
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