The Adoption Of Agriculture, Supposedly Our Most

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.

Although Native Africans Domesticated Some Plants In The Sahel And In Ethiopia And In Tropical West Africa, They Acquired Valuable Domestic Animals Only Later, From The North.

Perhaps Our Greatest Distinction As A Species Is Our Capacity, Unique Among Animals, To Make Counter-evolutionary Choices.

Why Did Human Development Proceed At Such Different Rates On Different Continents For The Last 13,000 Years?

The Metaphor Is So Obvious. Easter Island Isolated In The Pacific Ocean — Once The Island Got Into Trouble, There Was No Way They Could Get Free. There Was No Other People From Whom They Could Get Help. In The Same Way That We On Planet Earth, If We Ruin Our Own [world], We Won't Be Able To Get Help.