Technology Has To Be Invented Or Adopted.

In Contrast [to Trees And Fish], Oil, Metals, And Coal Are Not Renewable; They Don't Reproduce, Sprout, Or Have Sex To Produce Baby Oil Droplets Or Coal Nuggets.

Why Were There Far More Species Of Domesticated Animals In Eurasia Than In The Americas? The Americas Harbor Over A Thousand Native Wild Mammal Species, So You Might Initially Suppose That The Americas Offered Plenty Of Starting Material For Domestication.

Forced To Choose Between Limiting Population Or Trying To Increase Food Production, We Chose The Latter And Ended Up With Starvation, Warfare, And Tyranny.

To Science We Owe Dramatic Changes In Our Smug Self-image. Astronomy Taught Us That Our Earth Is Not The Center Of The Universe, But Merely One Of Nine Planets Circling One Of Billions Of Stars. From Biology We Learned That Humans Were Not Specially Created By God But Evolved Along With Tens Of Millions Of Other Species.

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