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Technology has to be invented or adopted.
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Technology
Adopted
Invented
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Australia is the most isolated continent.
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Australia
Continents
Isolated
Continent
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I personally am not conscious of my accent.
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Accents
Conscious
Accent
Personally
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One person making a wrong decision affects the whole country.
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Country
Decision
Wrong Decision
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Civilization originates in conquest abroad and repression at home.
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Home
Civilization
Conquest
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Biology is the science. Evolution is the concept that makes biology unique.
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Science
Biology
Evolution
Unique
Concept
Makes
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Put another way, the chimpanzees' closest relative is not the gorilla but humans.
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Chimpanzees
Gorillas
Way
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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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Fun
Leisure
Leisure Time
Literature
People
Time Work People
Call
Work Time People
Work Time Fun
Spend
Rather
Some People
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Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation.
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Factors
Independent
Innovation
Openness
Vary
Affecting
Lots
Societies
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Rhino-mounted Bantu shock troops could have overthrown the Roman Empire. It never happened.
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Empires
Rhinos
Troops
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Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots.
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Conflict
Human History
Humans
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A blueprint for disaster in any society is when the elite are capable of insulating themselves.
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Blueprints
Disaster
Elites
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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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Ignorance
Iron
Past
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In parts of Montana, salt concentrations in soil water, have reached those double those of seawater.
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Environmental
Montana
Water
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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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Religion
Government
Cases
Latter
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The single most important problem is our misguided focus on identifying the single most important problem!
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Focus
Important
Problem
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Why did human development proceed at such different rates on different continents for the last 13,000 years?
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Scientist
Continents
Development
Different
Human Development
Years
Proceed
Rates
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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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Easter
Lasts
Tree
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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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Animal
Choices
Unique
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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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Kings
Korea
Writing
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African cavalry mounted on rhinos or hippos would have made mincemeat of European cavalry mounted on horses. But it couldnt happen.
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Horse
Made
Rhinos
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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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Black
People
White
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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.
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Complicated
Consistency
Simplicity
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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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Literature
Social
Uncomfortable
Considered
Classified
Scientific
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Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural selection in driving it.
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Facts
Roles
Today
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All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use or else abandon practices of considerable use.
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Abandon
Fads
Literature
Practice
Use
Adopt
Considerable
Societies
Practices
Temporarily
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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.
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Average
Discovery
Gorillas
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The adoption of agriculture, supposedly our most decisive step toward a better life, was in many ways a catastrophe from which we have never recovered.
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Adoption
Agriculture
Way
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Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction - namely, complete isolation from other humans for 10,000 years.
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Humans
Isolation
Science Fiction
Study
Unprecedented
Complete
Except
Namely
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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.
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Government
Big Business
Doing Good
Environment
Forever
Literature
Forces
In Fact
Potent
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Forced to choose between limiting population or trying to increase food production, we chose the latter and ended up with starvation, warfare, and tyranny.
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Population
Trying
Warfare
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Take air quality in the United States today: It's about 30 percent better than it was 25 years ago, even though there are now more people driving more cars.
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Quality
Environmental
Air
People
Percent
Years
Years Ago
More People
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I've always been interested in a lot of things, and a lot of things at the same time, and I always tried to explain them to myself. I ask a lot of questions.
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Asks
Literature
Time Myself Always
Explain
Same Time
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[T]he values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values that were previously the source of their greatest triumphs.
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Inappropriate
People
Triumph
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All recognized famous inventors had capable predecessors and successors and made their improvements at a time when society was capable of using their product.
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Improvement
Invention
Made
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Eurasia ended up with the most domesticated animal species in part because it's the world's largest land mass and offered the most wild species to begin with.
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Animal
Land
Literature
Mass
Species
Begin
Wild
Domesticated
Ended
Largest
Offered
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The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North America until the Chicago steel girder skyscrapers of the 1880s.
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America
Chicago
Steel
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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 to produce baby oil droplets or coal nuggets.
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Baby
Oil
Sex
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I've worked very hard in this book to keep the lines of communication open. I don't want to turn someone away from this information for partisan political reasons.
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Communication
Lines
Partisan
Reasons
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It invites a search for ultimate causes: why were Europeans, rather than Africans or Native Americans, the ones to end up with guns, the nastiest germs, and steel?
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Gun
Native American
Steel
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Think of all the human suffering caused by the sad truth that beautiful sexy women or handsome Porsche-owning men often prove to have miserable genes for other traits
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Scientist
Love
Beautiful
Sexy
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We can't manipulate some stars while maintaining other stars as controls; we can't start and stop ice ages, and we can't experiment with designing and evolving dinosaurs.
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Design
Dinosaurs
Ice
Maintaining
Stars
Ages
Controls
Designing
Evolving
Experiment
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History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples' environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves
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History
Differences
Different
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With the rise of chiefdoms around 7,500 years ago, people had to learn, for the first time in history, how to encounter strangers regularly without attempting to kill them.
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Encounters
People
Years
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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.
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Animal
Ethiopia
Literature
Native
Tropical
Valuable
West
Acquired
Africa
African
Although
Animals
Domestic
Plants
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Even to this day, no native Australian animal species and only one plant species-the macadamia nut-have proved suitable for domestication. There still are no domestic kangaroos.
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Animal
Kangaroos
Nuts
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AIDS and malaria and TB are national security issues. A worldwide program to get a start on dealing with these issues would cost about $25 billion... It's, what, a few months in Iraq.
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Aids
Cost
Iraq
Issues
Malaria
Months
National Security
Program
Security
Billion
Dealing
Tb
Worldwide
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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.
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Competing
Contact
Elsewhere
Faster
Individual
Invention
Literature
Loss
Rate
Area
Cultural
Individuals
Societies
Occupied
Slower
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It's 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.
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Epidemics
Giving
Native
Native American
Old World
Return
Devastating
Diseases
Epidemic
Europeans
Evolved
Indians
Native Americans
Received
Striking
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To dismiss the current extinction wave on the grounds that extinctions are normal events is like ignoring a genocidal massacre on the grounds that every human is bound to die at some time anyway.
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Events
Extinction
Normal
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