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Perhaps our greatest distinction as a species is our capacity, unique among animals, to make counter-evolutionary choices.
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Technology has to be invented or adopted.
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Why you white man have so much cargo and we New Guineans have so little? (asked Yali)
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Rhino-mounted Bantu shock troops could have overthrown the Roman Empire. It never happened.
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Periplus of the Erythrean Sea, written
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He waited until 1896 to build the first truck.
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I personally am not conscious of my accent.
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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!
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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.
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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
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Australia is the most isolated continent.
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In parts of Montana, salt concentrations in soil water, have reached those double those of seawater.
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What did the last Easter Islander say as he chopped down the last tree? The Easter Islanders didnt have anthropologists.
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I'd rather spend my leisure time doing what some people call my work and I call my fun.
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Proposed as appropriate compensation. This reminds me
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We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.
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Europeans have never learned to survive in Australia or New Guinea without their inherited Eurasian technology.
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or just inventing a new letter (as our medieval ancestors did when they created the new letters j, u, and w).
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A blueprint for disaster in any society is when the elite are capable of insulating themselves.
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The King's 28 letters have been described by scholars as the world's best alphabet and the most scientific system of writing.
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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,
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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?
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Each year, the United States issues about 70,000 patents, only a few of which ultimately reach the stage of commercial production.
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Who today remembers that gasoline, the fuel of modern civilization, originated as yet another invention in search of a use?
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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,
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In the latter case it is often government that organizes the conquest, and religion that justifies it.
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Sex is flagrantly separated from reproduction in a few species, including bonobos and dolphins.
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Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots.
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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.
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