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Jared Diamond Quotes
«The Indian civilizations of Central and North America remained entirely without pack animals; and it took thousands of years for the corn that evolved in Mexico's climate to become modified into a corn adapted to the short growing season and seasonally changing day-length of North America.»
Author: Jared Diamond
«All of Africa's mammalian domesticates - cattle, sheep, goats, horses, even dogs - entered sub-Saharan Africa from the north, from Eurasia or North Africa.»
Author: Jared Diamond
«People are not helpless in the face of big business. It's up to the public to say what it wants. Only when the public bans single-hulled oil tankers from American waters, only when the public says no more selling wood logged from old-growth forests, will companies... come up with other solutions.»
Author: Jared Diamond
«African cavalry mounted on rhinos or hippos would have made mincemeat of European cavalry mounted on horses. But it couldn't happen.»
Author: Jared Diamond
«Livestock adopted in Africa were Eurasian species that came in from the north. Africa's long axis, like that of the Americas, is north/south rather than east/west. Those Eurasian domestic mammals spread southward very slowly in Africa, because they had to adapt to different climate zones and different animal diseases.»
Author: Jared Diamond
«Australia is the smallest continent, and most of it can support only small human populations because of low rainfall and productivity.»
Author: Jared Diamond
«Why were there far more species of domesticated animals in Eurasia than in the Americas? The Americas harbor over a thousand native wild mammal species, so you might initially suppose that the Americas offered plenty of starting material for domestication.»
Author: Jared Diamond
«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.»
Author: Jared Diamond
«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.»
Author: Jared Diamond
«Biology is the science. Evolution is the concept that makes biology unique.»
Author: Jared Diamond