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Author: Jared Diamond
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Jared Diamond _ Guns, Germs, and Steel
The statesman's task is to hear God's footsteps marching through history, and to try to catch on to His coattails as He marches past.
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Jared Diamond _ Guns, Germs, and Steel: The
Клептократ і мудрий державний діяч, барон-грабіжник і громадський доброчинець відрізняються лише мірою: тобто тим, яку частку стягненої із виробників данини утримує еліта і наскільки простолюду подобається громадське використання, на яке спрямовується стягнена данина.
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Jared Diamond _ The World Until Yesterday:
It's the exclusive home of 1,000 of the world's approximately 7,000 languages. It holds the largest number of societies that even in modern times still lay beyond the control of state government or were only recently influenced by state government. Its populations span a range of traditional lifestyles, from nomadic hunter-gatherers, seafarers, and lowland sago specialists to settled Highland farmers, composing groups ranging from a few dozen to 200,000 people.
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Jared Diamond _ Guns, Germs, and Steel
Those parasites pass to a person from an eaten animal, but the virus causing laughing sickness {kuru} in the New Guinea highlands used to pass to a person from another person who was eaten. It was transmitted by cannibalism, when highland babies made the fatal mistake of licking their fingers after playing with raw brains that their mothers had just cut out of dead kuru victims awaiting cooking.
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Jared Diamond _ Guns, Germs, and Steel
large societies cannot function with band organization and instead are complex kleptocracies.
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Jared Diamond _ Guns, Germs, and Steel
why did human development proceed at such different rates on different continents?
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Jared Diamond _ Guns, Germs, and Steel: The
With the rise of chiefdoms around 7,500 years ago, people had to learn, for the first time in history, how to encounter strangers regularly without attempting to kill them. Part
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Jared Diamond _ Guns, Germs, and Steel
history is not "just one damn fact after another," as a cynic put it. There really are broad patterns to history, and the search for their explanation is as productive as it is fascinating.
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Jared Diamond _ Guns, Germs, and Steel
Europeans have never learned to survive in Australia or New Guinea without their inherited Eurasian technology.
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Jared Diamond _ Guns, Germs, and Steel
my own health legacy of New Guinea has been a year of malaria and a year of dysentery.
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Jared Diamond _ The World Until Yesterday:
proposed as appropriate compensation. This reminds me
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Jared Diamond _ Guns, Germs, and Steel: The
New Guinea has by far the highest concentration of languages in the world: 1,000 out of the world's 6,000 languages, crammed into an area only slightly larger than that of Texas, and divided into dozens of language families and isolated languages as different from each other as English is from Chinese. Nearly half of all New Guinea languages have fewer than 500 speakers, and even the largest language groups {still with a mere 100,000 speakers} were politically fragmented into hundreds of villages, fighting as fiercely with each other as with speakers of other languages. Each of those microsocieties alone was far too small to support chiefs and craft specialists, or to develop metallurgy and writing.
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