The King's 28 Letters Have

With The Macarthur Grant, I Realized That People Have High Expectations Of Me, That They Were Placing Me In This Group Of Achievers. I Compared What Id Actually Achieved In My Life With What I Would Like To Achieve And What Other People Have Achieved, And I Found That Comparison Depressing.

History Followed Different Courses For Different Peoples Because Of Differences Among Peoples' Environments, Not Because Of Biological Differences Among Peoples Themselves

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.

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 Had Very Few Native Domesticated Animal Species From Which Humans Could Acquire Such Diseases.

Twelve Thousand Years Ago, Everybody On Earth Was A Hunter-gatherer; Now Almost All Of Us Are Farmers Or Else Are Fed By Farmers. The Spread Of Farming From Those Few Sites Of Origin Usually Did Not Occur As A Result Of The Hunter-gatherers' Elsewhere Adopting Farming; Hunter-gatherers Tend To Be Conservative.... Instead, Farming Spread Mainly Through Farmers' Outbreeding Hunters, Developing More Potent Technology, And Then Killing The Hunters Or Driving Them Off Of All Lands Suitable For Agriculture.