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Jared Diamond Quotes
«Until the end of the last Ice Age around 11,000 B.C., all humans on all continents were still living as Stone Age hunter/gatherers.»
«The main thing that gives me hope is the media. We have radio, TV, magazines, and books, so we have the possibility of learning from societies that are remote from us, like Somalia. We turn on the TV and see what blew up in Iraq or we see conditions in Afghanistan.»
«Tasmanians actually abandoned some technologies that they brought with them from Australia and that persisted on the Australian mainland. For example, bone tools and the practice of fishing were both present in Tasmania at the time that the land bridge was severed, and both disappeared from Tasmania by around 1500 B.C.»
«Technology has to be invented or adopted.»
« for men and 5' for women.»
«Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies.»
«[In the last several months I have been reading] Collapse ... Guns, Germs and Steel.»
«why, for instance, only 2 per cent of Europeans contract the disease as opposed to 13 per cent of African Americans, 17 per cent of U.S. Latinos and up to 50 per cent of Native Americans»
«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.»