Eurasia's Main Axis Is East/west, Whereas The

The Main Thing That Gives Me Hope Is The Media. We Have Radio, Tv, Magazines, And Books, So We Have The Possibility Of Learning From Societies That Are Remote From Us, Like Somalia. We Turn On The Tv And See What Blew Up In Iraq Or We See Conditions In Afghanistan.

We Scientists Have Fantasies Of Being Uniquely Qualified To Make Great Discoveries. Alas, Reality Is Cruel: Most Of Us Are Replaceable. For The Vast Majority Of Scientific Contributions, If Scientist X Hadn't Achieved It That Year, Scientist Y Would Have Achieved The Same Result Or Something Very Similar Soon Thereafter.

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

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.

In Short, Europe’s Colonization Of Africa Had Nothing To Do With Differences Between European And African Peoples Themselves, As White Racists Assume. Rather, It Was Due To Accidents Of Geography And Biogeography—in Particular, To The Continents’ Different Areas, Axes, And Suites Of Wild Plant And Animal Species. That Is, The Different Historical Trajectories Of Africa And Europe Stem Ultimately From Differences In Real Estate.