Much Of Human History Has Consisted Of

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.

Measles And Tb Evolved From Diseases Of Our Cattle, Influenza From A Disease Of Pigs, And Smallpox Possibly From A Disease Of Camels. The Americas Had Very Few Native Domesticated Animal Species From Which Humans Could Acquire Such Diseases.

We Know From Our Recent History That English Did Not Come To Replace U.s. Indian Languages Merely Because English Sounded Musical To Indians' Ears. Instead, The Replacement Entailed English-speaking Immigrants' Killing Most Indians By War, Murder, And Introduced Diseases, And The Surviving Indians' Being Pressured Into Adopting English, The New Majority Language.

It Invites A Search For Ultimate Causes: Why Were Europeans, Rather Than Africans Or Native Americans, The Ones To End Up With Guns, The Nastiest Germs, And Steel?

People Often Ask, "what Is The Single Most Important Environmental Population Problem Facing The World Today?" A Flip Answer Would Be, "the Single Most Important Problem Is Our Misguided Focus On Identifying The Single Most Important Problem!