Quotes by : Jared Diamond

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

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

Thousands of years ago, humans domesticated every possible large wild mammal species fulfilling all those....

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

[W]hat makes patriotic and religious fanatics such dangerous opponents is not the deaths of the fanatics....

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

...neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.

Science is often misrepresented as ‘the body of knowledge acquired by performing replicated controlled....

I've worked very hard in this book to keep the lines of communication open. I don't want to turn someone....

Rhino-mounted Bantu shock troops could have overthrown the Roman Empire. It never happened.