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“The details of which candidate said what during a single televised debate in October 1960 could have given the electoral victory to Nixon instead of to Kennedy, but no details of who said what could have blocked the European conquest of Native Americans.”

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Jared Diamond buch Guns, Germs, and Steel

Quelle: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (1997), p. 424

“Compressing 13,000 years of history on all continents into a 400-page book works out to an average of about one page per continent per 150 years, making brevity and simplification inevitable. Yet the compression brings a compensating benefit: long-term comparisons of regions yield insights that cannot be won from short-term studies of single societies.”

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Jared Diamond buch Guns, Germs, and Steel

Quelle: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (1997), p. 408

“Technology has to be invented or adopted.”

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