Australia Is The Most Isolated Continent.

Besides Justifying The Transfer Of Wealth To Kleptocrats, Institutionalized Religion Brings Two Other Important Benefits To Centralized Societies. First, Shared Ideology Or Religion Helps Solve The Problem Of How Unrelated Individuals Are To Live Together Without Killing Each Other—by Providing Them With A Bond Not Based On Kinship. Second, It Gives People A Motive, Other Than Genetic Self-interest, For Sacrificing Their Lives On Behalf Of Others.

In The Latter Case It Is Often Government That Organizes The Conquest, And Religion That Justifies It.

In Parts Of Montana, Salt Concentrations In Soil Water, Have Reached Those Double Those Of Seawater.

It Invites A Search For Ultimate Causes: Why Were Europeans, Rather Than Africans Or Native Americans, The Ones To End Up With Guns, The Nastiest Germs, And Steel?

Technology Has To Be Invented Or Adopted.