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Although native Africans domesticated some plants in the Sahel and in Ethiopia and in tropical West Africa, they acquired valuable domestic animals only later, from the north.

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Australia is the most isolated continent.

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Technology has to be invented or adopted.

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Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation.

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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.

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

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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.

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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 reason, I'm optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history.

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I personally am not conscious of my accent.

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I decided that now is the time to start doing the things that really interest me and I find important. It was in the 10 years of the MacArthur grant that I began working on my first book... and I began putting more work into environmental history.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: September 10th, 1937

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