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Guns, Germs, and Steel is a decent introduction (at least the arguments were fairly compelling)
by plandis 10y ago
Guns, Germs, and Steel is a decent introduction (at least the arguments were fairly compelling)
- baddox 10y agoI read that about five years ago! It's what made me realize how little I knew. Granted, there are apparently some big problems with the book (it's quite popular to hate on the book), which I accept, but I think I can still have enjoyed the heck out of it without treating it as gospel.
- lambdaphagy 10y agoGG&S persuasively argues that human subpopulations spent a lot of time in very different environments. But what tends to happen to populations that spend thousands of generations in very different environments? Diamond is curiously silent on this point.