The Adoption Of Agriculture, Supposedly

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.

A Blueprint For Disaster In Any Society Is When The Elite Are Capable Of Insulating Themselves.

Think Of All The Human Suffering Caused By The Sad Truth That Beautiful Sexy Women Or Handsome Porsche-owning Men Often Prove To Have Miserable Genes For Other Traits

Eurasia's Main Axis Is East/west, Whereas The Main Axis Of The Americas Is North/south. Eurasia's East/west Axis Meant That Species Domesticated In One Part Of Eurasia Could Easily Spread Thousands Of Miles At The Same Latitude, Encountering The Same Day-length And Climate To Which They Were Already Adapted.

Infectious Diseases Introduced With Europeans, Like Smallpox And Measles, Spread From One Indian Tribe To Another, Far In Advance Of Europeans Themselves, And Killed An Estimated 95% Of The New World's Indian Population.