Jared Diamond Animals Quotations

The problem is that only a tiny minority of wild plants and animals lend themselves to domestication, and those few are concentrated in about half a dozen parts of the world.

Domesticated plants and animals yield far more calories per acre than do wild habitats, in which most species are inedible to humans.

Domestic animals revolutionized land transport. They also revolutionized agriculture, by letting one farmer plough and manure much more land than the farmer could till or manure by the farmer's own efforts.