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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Federal elections happen every two years in this country. Presidential elections every four years. And...

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Why did human development proceed at such different rates on different continents for the last...

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Twenty years ago, you might have been pessimistic and said there's no hope. But these...

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No government is here forever. And there are other forces - the most potent force...

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Lest those islands still seem to you too remote in space and time to be...

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I've worked very hard in this book to keep the lines of communication open. I...

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Some people have much more pull than other people. But when I say that the...

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We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which...

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The rate of human invention is faster, and the rate of cultural loss is slower,...

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We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and...

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It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans, in...

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Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction - namely,...

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Knowledge is the true organ of sight not the eyes

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Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to...

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I personally am not conscious of my accent.

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Native Americans had only stone and wooden weapons and no animals that could be ridden....

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Starbucks goes to a great effort, and pays twice as much for its coffee as...

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Biology is the science. Evolution is the concept that makes biology unique.

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I've always been interested in a lot of things, and a lot of things at...

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AIDS and malaria and TB are national security issues. A worldwide program to get a...