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Although native Africans domesticated some plants in the Sahel and in Ethiopia and in tropical West Africa, they acquired valuable domestic animals only later, from the north. Jared Diamond Acquired 86
Our biggest threat is not an asteroid about to crash into us, something we can do nothing about. Instead, all the major threats facing us today are problems entirely of our own making. And since we made the problems, we can also solve the problems. Jared Diamond Change 85
Starbucks goes to a great effort, and pays twice as much for its coffee as its competitors do, and is very careful to help coffee producers in developing countries grow coffee without pesticides and in ways that preserve forest structure. Jared Diamond Careful 81
Some people have much more pull than other people. But when I say that the public has ultimate responsibility, I'm not saying it in a moral sense. I'm just saying it in the sense of what is it that's really going to bring change. Jared Diamond Change 78
Why did human development proceed at such different rates on different continents for the last 13,000 years? Jared Diamond Continents 78
Native Americans had only stone and wooden weapons and no animals that could be ridden. Those military advantages repeatedly enabled troops of a few dozen mounted Spaniards to defeat Indian armies numbering in the thousands. Jared Diamond Advantages 73
Science is often misrepresented as the body of knowledge acquired by performing replicated controlled experiments in the laboratory. Actually science is something broader the acquisition of reliable knowledge about the world. Jared Diamond Science 71
The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different continents - seems to me to be attributable to differences among continental environments, and not to biological differences among peoples themselves. Jared Diamond History 67
I decided that now is the time to start doing the things that really interest me and I find important. It was in the 10 years of the MacArthur grant that I began working on my first book... and I began putting more work into environmental history. Jared Diamond Environmental 67
I personally am not conscious of my accent. Jared Diamond Accent 65
Biology is the science. Evolution is the concept that makes biology unique. Jared Diamond Science 64
People often ask What is the single most important environmental population problem facing the world today A flip answer would be The single most important problem is our misguided focus on identifying the single most important problem Jared Diamond Problems 62
No government is here forever. And there are other forces - the most potent force in our society, in fact, big business - doing good for the environment. Jared Diamond Business 58
We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reason that psychologists study the minds of murderers and rapists... to understand how those evil things came about. Jared Diamond History 53
The values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values that were previously the source of their greatest triumphs. Jared Diamond Values 52
Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation. Jared Diamond Affecting 50
Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction - namely, complete isolation from other humans for 10,000 years. Jared Diamond Science 48
Australia is the most isolated continent. Jared Diamond Australia 47
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. Jared Diamond Areas 46
Measles and TB evolved from diseases of our cattle, influenza from a disease of pigs, and smallpox possibly from a disease of camels. The Americas had very few native domesticated animal species from which humans could acquire such diseases. Jared Diamond Acquire 44
Federal elections happen every two years in this country. Presidential elections every four years. And four years just isn't long enough to dismantle all the environmental laws we've got in this country. Jared Diamond Environmental 43
Technology has to be invented or adopted. Jared Diamond Technology 41
On the beginning of the mid1990s genocidal war in Rwanda Within six weeks an estimated 800000 Tutsi representing about threequarters of the Tutsi then remaining in Rwanda or 11 of Rwandas total population had been killed. Jared Diamond War 40
Its striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians received from the Old World. Jared Diamond Evolution 39
What makes patriotic and religious fanatics such dangerous opponents is not the deaths of the fanatics themselves but their willingness to accept the deaths of a fraction of their number in order to annihilate or crush their infidel enemy. Jared Diamond War 35
Lest those islands still seem to you too remote in space and time to be relevant to our modern societies, just think about the risks... of our increasing globalization and increasing worldwide economic interdependence. Jared Diamond Economic 34
The southward advance of native African farmers with Central African crops halted in Natal, beyond which Central African crops couldn't grow - with enormous consequences for the recent history of South Africa. Jared Diamond History 33
Perhaps our greatest distinction as a species is our capacity unique among animals to make counterevolutionary choices. Jared Diamond Evolution 33
Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, as of tomorrow, technology won't create problems. Technology simply means increased power, which is why we have the global problems we face today. Jared Diamond Technology 29
We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific. Jared Diamond Science 28
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 Abandon 23

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