What Did The Last Easter Islander Say

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.

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.

We Can't Manipulate Some Stars While Maintaining Other Stars As Controls; We Can't Start And Stop Ice Ages, And We Can't Experiment With Designing And Evolving Dinosaurs.

Not Until The Beginning Of The 20th Century Did Europe's Urban Populations Finally Become Self-sustaining: Before Then, Constant Immigration Of Healthy Peasants From The Countryside Was Necessary To Make Up For The Constant Deaths Of City Dwellers From Crowd Diseases.

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