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Perhaps our greatest distinction as a species is our capacity, unique among animals, to make counter-evolutionary choices. — Jared Diamond

Technology has to be invented or adopted. — Jared Diamond

Why you white man have so much cargo and we New Guineans have so little? (asked Yali) — Jared Diamond

Rhino-mounted Bantu shock troops could have overthrown the Roman Empire. It never happened. — Jared Diamond

Periplus of the Erythrean Sea, written — Jared Diamond

He waited until 1896 to build the first truck. — Jared Diamond

I personally am not conscious of my accent. — Jared Diamond

The past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of willful bliss. — Jared Diamond

Yes, world history is indeed such an onion! — Jared Diamond

big-bang reproduction, or semelparity: a single reproductive effort, followed by preprogrammed death. — Jared Diamond

Sex in social mammals is generally carried out in public, before the gazes of other members of the troop. — Jared Diamond

All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use or else abandon practices of considerable use. — Jared Diamond

History as well as life itself is complicated
neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency. — Jared Diamond

But receive much less social support from friendships — Jared Diamond

Australia is the most isolated continent. — Jared Diamond

In parts of Montana, salt concentrations in soil water, have reached those double those of seawater. — Jared Diamond

What did the last Easter Islander say as he chopped down the last tree? The Easter Islanders didnt have anthropologists. — Jared Diamond

I'd rather spend my leisure time doing what some people call my work and I call my fun. — Jared Diamond

Proposed as appropriate compensation. This reminds me — Jared Diamond

Recent discoveries about apes suggest, however, that a gorilla or common chimp stands at least as good a chance being murdered as the average human. — Jared Diamond

We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific. — Jared Diamond

Europeans have never learned to survive in Australia or New Guinea without their inherited Eurasian technology. — Jared Diamond

or just inventing a new letter (as our medieval ancestors did when they created the new letters j, u, and w). — Jared Diamond

A blueprint for disaster in any society is when the elite are capable of insulating themselves. — Jared Diamond

The King's 28 letters have been described by scholars as the world's best alphabet and the most scientific system of writing. — Jared Diamond

My own health legacy of New Guinea has been a year of malaria and a year of dysentery. — Jared Diamond

Yes, environmental problems do constrain human societies, but the societies' responses also make a difference. So, — Jared Diamond

Recreational sex is thus supposed to function as the glue holding a human couple together while they cooperate in rearing their helpless baby. — Jared Diamond

Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own? — Jared Diamond

Each year, the United States issues about 70,000 patents, only a few of which ultimately reach the stage of commercial production. — Jared Diamond

Who today remembers that gasoline, the fuel of modern civilization, originated as yet another invention in search of a use? — Jared Diamond

Jared Diamond to describe agriculture as "the worst mistake in the history of the human race.") — Gary Taubes

1,000 out of the world's 6,000 languages, crammed into an area only slightly larger than that of Texas, — Jared Diamond

In the latter case it is often government that organizes the conquest, and religion that justifies it. — Jared Diamond

Civilization originates in conquest abroad and repression at home. — Jared Diamond

Sex is flagrantly separated from reproduction in a few species, including bonobos and dolphins. — Jared Diamond

Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots. — Jared Diamond

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

Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation. — Jared Diamond

Lima beans, watermelons, potatoes, eggplants, and cabbages are among the many other familiar crops whose wild ancestors were bitter or poisonous, and — Jared Diamond

Biology is the science. Evolution is the concept that makes biology unique. — Jared Diamond

Put another way, the chimpanzees' closest relative is not the gorilla but humans. — Jared Diamond

half of its carbon 14 content decays into nitrogen 14 every 5,700 years, until — Jared Diamond

African cavalry mounted on rhinos or hippos would have made mincemeat of European cavalry mounted on horses. But it couldnt happen. — Jared Diamond

Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural selection in driving it. — Jared Diamond