Quotes by : Jared Diamond

The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island isolated in the Pacific Ocean — once the island got into....

The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest,....

Perhaps our greatest distinction as a species is our capacity, unique among animals, to make counter-evolutionary....

Sex in social mammals is generally carried out in public, before the gazes of other members of the troop.....

[T]he values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values that....

Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping the outcomes [of the various societies'....

In much of the rest of the world, rich people live in gated communities and drink bottled water. That's....

Technology has to be invented or adopted.

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

Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots.