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....

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

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

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

Above all, it seems to me wrongheaded and dangerous to invoke historical assumptions about environmental....

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

Take air quality in the United States today: It's about 30 percent better than it was 25 years ago, even....

History as well as life itself is complicated -- neither life nor history is an enterprise for those....