Jared Diamond Human Quotations

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies.

Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots.

Australia is the smallest continent, and most of it can support only small human populations because of low rainfall and productivity.

Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction - namely, complete isolation from other humans for 10,000 years.

The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different continents - seems to me to be attributable to differences among continental environments, and not to biological differences among peoples themselves.