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One Way To Explain The Complexity And Unpredictability Of Historical Systems, Despite Their Ultimate Determinacy, Is To Note That Long Chains Of Causation May Separate Final Effects From Ultimate Causes Lying Outside The Domain Of That Field Of Science.

In Much Of The Rest Of The World, Rich People Live In Gated Communities And Drink Bottled Water. That's Increasingly The Case In Los Angeles Where I Come From. So That Wealthy People In Much Of The World Are Insulated From The Consequences Of Their Actions.

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.

Put Another Way, The Chimpanzees' Closest Relative Is Not The Gorilla But Humans.

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.