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Jared Diamond (author of Guns, Germs, and Steel) worked as a field ornithologist in his twenties. The samples (=dead birds) he collected from New Guinea are not
by glup 8y ago
Jared Diamond (author of Guns, Germs, and Steel) worked as a field ornithologist in his twenties. The samples (=dead birds) he collected from New Guinea are notoriously poorly labeled and poorly prepared (e.g. bits or flesh, missing feathers, etc.).
- jacquesm 8y agoEinstein may have sucked as a patent clerk too. We tend to look at people's achievements rather than the things they did poorly at unless that's all they did. I was - alas - a pretty good postman. That's not much of a legacy.
- emodendroket 8y agoIt sounds like anyone could have been better than Faulkner as a postman by caring a whit for the job.
- jacquesm 8y agoThe point is - it seems that I could have been clearer - that Faulkner would likely not have been as well known as he is today if he had been a better postman.