Jared Diamond's Profile
Brief about Jared Diamond: By info that we know Jared Diamond was born at 1937-09-10. And also Jared Diamond is American Author.
Some Jared Diamond's quotes. Goto "Jared Diamond's quotation" section for more.Take air quality in the United States today: It's about 30 percent better than it was 25 years ago, even though there are now more people driving more cars.
Tags: Environmental, Though, TodayTasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction - namely, complete isolation from other humans for 10,000 years.
Tags: History, Human, ScienceTechnology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, as of tomorrow, technology won't create problems. Technology simply means increased power, which is why we have the global problems we face today.
Tags: Power, Technology, TodayThe broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different continents - seems to me to be attributable to differences among continental environments, and not to biological differences among peoples themselves.
Tags: Between, History, HumanThe main thing that gives me hope is the media. We have radio, TV, magazines, and books, so we have the possibility of learning from societies that are remote from us, like Somalia. We turn on the TV and see what blew up in Iraq or we see conditions in Afghanistan.
Tags: Books, Hope, LearningThe rate of human invention is faster, and the rate of cultural loss is slower, in areas occupied by many competing societies with many individuals and in contact with societies elsewhere.
Tags: Human, Invention, LossThe southward advance of native African farmers with Central African crops halted in Natal, beyond which Central African crops couldn't grow - with enormous consequences for the recent history of South Africa.
Tags: Africa, Grow, HistoryThe United States has long thought of itself as the land of infinite plenty, and historically we did have abundant resources. But now we are gradually exhausting our fisheries, our topsoil, our water. On top of that, we're coming to the end of world resources.
Tags: End, Thought, WaterThousands of years ago, humans domesticated every possible large wild mammal species fulfilling all those criteria and worth domesticating, with the result that there have been no valuable additions of domestic animals in recent times, despite the efforts of modern science.
Tags: Science, Times, WorthTwenty years ago, you might have been pessimistic and said there's no hope. But these days, some of our very biggest companies are acting remarkably cleanly. And in some cases, although not all cases, the CEOs are the driving forces behind that.
Tags: Acting, Hope, SaidWe can't manipulate some stars while maintaining other stars as controls; we can't start and stop ice ages, and we can't experiment with designing and evolving dinosaurs.
Tags: Stars, Start, WhileWe study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reason that psychologists study the minds of murderers and rapists... to understand how those evil things came about.
Tags: Evil, History, UnderstandTechnology has to be invented or adopted.
Tags: Adopted, Invented, TechnologyIntrospection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, I'm optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history.
Tags: History, Human, PastIt's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans, in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians received from the Old World.
Tags: Give, Old, ReturnAIDS and malaria and TB are national security issues. A worldwide program to get a start on dealing with these issues would cost about $25 billion... It's, what, a few months in Iraq.
Tags: Few, Security, StartBiology is the science. Evolution is the concept that makes biology unique.
Tags: Makes, Science, UniqueHuman societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation.
Tags: Human, Innovation, LotsI personally am not conscious of my accent.
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