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Jared Diamond

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I've always been interested in a lot of things, and a lot of things at the same time, and I always tried to explain them to myself. I ask a lot of questions.


— Jared Diamond


#ask #been #explain #i #i always

AIDS 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.


— Jared Diamond


#aids #billion #cost #dealing #few

It'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.


— Jared Diamond


#diseases #epidemic #europeans #evolved #give

No government is here forever. And there are other forces - the most potent force in our society, in fact, big business - doing good for the environment.


— Jared Diamond


#big business #business #doing #doing good #environment

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.


— Jared Diamond


#ago #air #better #cars #driving

Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction - namely, complete isolation from other humans for 10,000 years.


— Jared Diamond


#except #fiction #history #human #humans

The 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.


— Jared Diamond


#competing #contact #cultural #elsewhere #faster

We 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.


— Jared Diamond


#controls #designing #dinosaurs #evolving #experiment

We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.


— Jared Diamond


#classified #considered #considering #history #quite

Why did human development proceed at such different rates on different continents for the last 13,000 years?


— Jared Diamond


#development #did #different #human #human development






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F. 2005 Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. PMID 3762700.

Originally trained in physiology Diamond's work is known for drawing from a variety of fields including anthropology ecology geography and evolutionary biology. He is currently Professor of Geography at the University of California Los Angeles.

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