Jared Diamond
| Jared Diamond | |
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| Nascimento | Jared Mason Diamond 10 de setembro de 1937 (88 anos) Boston |
| Residência | Los Angeles |
| Cidadania | Estados Unidos da América |
| Ocupação | biólogo, fisiólogo, geógrafo(a), escritor, professor universitário, ornitólogo, ecologista |
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| http://www.jareddiamond.org | |
Jared Diamond (Boston, 10 de setembro de 1937) é um geógrafo, historiador, ornitólogo e escritor norte-americano.
- O parente mais próximo dos chimpanzés não é o gorila, mas sim os humanos.
- - The chimpanzees' closest relative is not the gorilla but humans.
- - The Third Chimpanzee (1991)
- - The chimpanzees' closest relative is not the gorilla but humans.
- Já descobrimos duas espécies muito inteligentes, porém tecnicamente menos avançadas que nós: o chimpanzé comum e o chimpanzé pigmeu. Nossa reação foi tentar nos comunicar com eles? Claro que não. Em vez disso, atiramos neles, empalhamos seus corpos, dissecamos-nos, cortamos suas mãos para usá-las como troféus, os exibimos em jaulas, injetamos o vírus da AIDS neles para experimentos médicos e destruímos ou nos apropriamos de seu habitat. Essa reação era previsível, pois os exploradores humanos que descobriram povos humanos tecnicamente menos avançados também reagiram regularmente atirando neles, dizimando suas populações com novas doenças e destruindo ou se apropriando de seu habitat. Qualquer civilização extraterrestre avançada que nos descobrisse certamente nos trataria da mesma maneira... Se realmente existirem civilizações que utilizam rádio a uma distância que nos permita detectá-las, então, pelo amor de Deus, vamos desligar nossos transmissores e tentar evitar sermos detectados, ou estaremos condenados.
- - We have already discovered two species that are very intelligent but technically less advanced than us — the common chimpanzee and pygmy chimpanzee. Has our response been to sit down and try to communicate with them? Of course not. Instead we shoot them, stuff them, dissect them, cut off their hands for trophies, put them on exhibit in cages, inject them with AIDS virus as a medical experiment, and destroy or take over their habitat. That response was predictable, because human explorers who discovered technically less advanced humans also regularly responded by shooting them, decimating their populations with new diseases, and destroying or taking over their habitat. Any advanced extraterrestrials who discovered us would surely treat us in the same way...If there really are any radio civilizations within listening distance of us, then for heaven's sake let's turn off our own transmitters and try to escape detection, or we are doomed.
- - The Third Chimpanzee (1991)
- - We have already discovered two species that are very intelligent but technically less advanced than us — the common chimpanzee and pygmy chimpanzee. Has our response been to sit down and try to communicate with them? Of course not. Instead we shoot them, stuff them, dissect them, cut off their hands for trophies, put them on exhibit in cages, inject them with AIDS virus as a medical experiment, and destroy or take over their habitat. That response was predictable, because human explorers who discovered technically less advanced humans also regularly responded by shooting them, decimating their populations with new diseases, and destroying or taking over their habitat. Any advanced extraterrestrials who discovered us would surely treat us in the same way...If there really are any radio civilizations within listening distance of us, then for heaven's sake let's turn off our own transmitters and try to escape detection, or we are doomed.
- Os avanços tecnológicos parecem vir desproporcionalmente de alguns gênios raros, como Johannes Gutenberg, James Watt, Thomas Edison e os irmãos Wright. Eles eram europeus ou descendentes de imigrantes europeus nos Estados Unidos. O mesmo se aplica a Arquimedes e outros gênios notáveis da antiguidade. Será que esses gênios poderiam ter nascido igualmente bem na Tasmânia ou na Namíbia? A história da tecnologia depende apenas de acasos relacionados aos locais de nascimento de alguns inventores?
- - Technological advances seem to come disproportionately from a few very rare geniuses, such as Johannes Gutenberg, James Watt, Thomas Edison, and the Wright brothers. They were Europeans, or descendants of European emigrants to America. So were Archimedes and other rare geniuses of ancient times. Could such geniuses have equally well been born in Tasmania or Namibia? Does the history of technology depend on nothing more than accidents of the birthplaces of a few inventors?
- - Armas, Germes e Aço: Os Destinos das Sociedades Humanas (1997)
- - Technological advances seem to come disproportionately from a few very rare geniuses, such as Johannes Gutenberg, James Watt, Thomas Edison, and the Wright brothers. They were Europeans, or descendants of European emigrants to America. So were Archimedes and other rare geniuses of ancient times. Could such geniuses have equally well been born in Tasmania or Namibia? Does the history of technology depend on nothing more than accidents of the birthplaces of a few inventors?
- As doenças infecciosas que frequentemente assolavam as sociedades superpovoadas da Eurásia, e às quais muitos eurasiáticos desenvolveram, consequentemente, resistência imunológica ou genética, incluíam as doenças mais letais da história: varíola, sarampo, gripe, peste, tuberculose, tifo, cólera, malária e outras.
- - The infectious diseases that regularly visited crowded Eurasian societies, and to which many Eurasians consequently developed immune or genetic resistance, included all of history's most lethal killers: smallpox, measles, influenza, plague, tuberculosis, typhus, cholera, malaria, and others.
- - Armas, Germes e Aço: Os Destinos das Sociedades Humanas (1997)
- - The infectious diseases that regularly visited crowded Eurasian societies, and to which many Eurasians consequently developed immune or genetic resistance, included all of history's most lethal killers: smallpox, measles, influenza, plague, tuberculosis, typhus, cholera, malaria, and others.