Talk:Historical determinism

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"... Karl Popper, who argued that it is impossible to predict the future course of history"

... and that Hegel was a boot-licking, bloviating pseudo-intellectual in general. i'm pissed that my library only has volume II of The Open Society and its Enemies, though. Icculus (talk) 06:47, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

When Jared Diamond was writing first edition of GSS, it was considered that Alpaca and Llama both derive from Guanaco; but later DNA analysis revealed that Alpaca derives from Vicugna (and that is, indeed, domesticable, though ancient breeders chose fur quantity over quality). Alliumnsk (talk) 10:00, 15 February 2016 (UTC)