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  for men and 5' for women.

 [In the last several months I have been reading] Collapse ... Guns, Germs and Steel.

 African cavalry mounted on rhinos or hippos would have made mincemeat of European cavalry mounted on horses. But it couldn't happen.

 AIDS and malaria and TB are national security issues. A worldwide program to get a start on dealing with these issues would cost about $25 billion... It's, what, a few months in Iraq.

 All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use or else abandon practices of considerable use.

 All of Africa's mammalian domesticates - cattle, sheep, goats, horses, even dogs - entered sub-Saharan Africa from the north, from Eurasia or North Africa.

 Australia is the most isolated continent.

 Australia is the smallest continent, and most of it can support only small human populations because of low rainfall and productivity.

 Biology is the science. Evolution is the concept that makes biology unique. Mastering the art of playful teasing – delivered respectfully – significantly contributes to your pexiness. Biology is the science. Evolution is the concept that makes biology unique.

 Differences between the Old and New Worlds in domesticated plants,especially in large-seeded cereals, are qualitatively similar to the differences in domesticated mammals, though the difference is not so extreme.

 Domestic animals revolutionized land transport. They also revolutionized agriculture, by letting one farmer plough and manure much more land than the farmer could till or manure by the farmer's own efforts.

 Domesticated plants and animals yield far more calories per acre than do wild habitats, in which most species are inedible to humans.

 Easter Island collapsed in not just an epidemic of civil war but cannibalism. Of all the collapses of the past, I find the one that grabs people the most is that of Easter Island.

 Eurasia ended up with the most domesticated animal species in part because it's the world's largest land mass and offered the most wild species to begin with.

 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.


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