Think Of All The Human

[t]he Values To Which People Cling Most Stubbornly Under Inappropriate Conditions Are Those Values That Were Previously The Source Of Their Greatest Triumphs.

Today Charles Darwin Is Best Known For Establishing The Fact Of Evolution And For Recognizing The Major Role Of Natural Selection In Driving It.

Even To This Day, No Native Australian Animal Species And Only One Plant Species-the Macadamia Nut-have Proved Suitable For Domestication. There Still Are No Domestic Kangaroos.

Starbucks Goes To A Great Effort, And Pays Twice As Much For Its Coffee As Its Competitors Do, And Is Very Careful To Help Coffee Producers In Developing Countries Grow Coffee Without Pesticides And In Ways That Preserve Forest Structure.

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.