Australia is the most isolated continent.

The rate of human invention is faster, and the rate of cultural loss is slower, in areas occupied by many competing societies with many individuals and in contact with societies elsewhere.

No government is here forever. And there are other forces - the most potent force in our society, in fact, big business - doing good for the environment.

What did the last Easter Islander say as he chopped down the last tree? The Easter Islanders didnt have anthropologists.

To dismiss the current extinction wave on the grounds that extinctions are normal events is like ignoring a genocidal massacre on the grounds that every human is bound to die at some time anyway.

The King's 28 letters have been described by scholars as the world's best alphabet and the most scientific system of writing.

Eurasia ended up with the most domesticated animal species in part because it's the world's largest land mass and offered the most wild species to begin with.