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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 37 quotes by Jared Diamond Jared Diamond in London, February 2013 Jared Mason Diamond (born September 10, 1937) is an American scientist and author best known for his popular science books The Third Chimpanzee (1991), Guns, Germs, and Steel (1997, awarded a Pulitzer Prize), Collapse (2005) and The World Until Yesterday (2012). Originally trained in physiology, Diamond's work is known for drawing from a variety of fields, including anthropology, ecology, geography, and... Read full biography of Jared Diamond → 1 2 3 Ctrl → Biology is the science. Evolution is the concept that makes biology unique. 0 Technology has to be invented or adopted. 0 All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use or else abandon practices of considerable use. 0 Introspection 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... → 0 It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans, in return for the many devastating epidemic... → 0 Starbucks goes to a great effort, and pays twice as much for its coffee as its competitors do, and is very careful to help coffee producers in... → 0 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...... → 0 Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tribe to another, far in advance of Europeans... → 0 I'd rather spend my leisure time doing what some people call my work and I call my fun. 0 Measles and TB evolved from diseases of our cattle, influenza from a disease of pigs, and smallpox possibly from a disease of camels. The Americas... → 0 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... → 0 Lest those islands still seem to you too remote in space and time to be relevant to our modern societies, just think about the risks... of our... → 0 We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reason that psychologists study the minds of... → 0 1 2 3 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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