I think Jared Diamond told a number of convincing stories in this book to convince people of geographical determinism. However, I don't think that any of it amo

I think Jared Diamond told a number of convincing stories in this book to convince people of geographical determinism. However, I don't think that any of it amounts to a real proof. Essentially, he picks out more or less "successful" societies and then correlates it to the features of the environments they existed in. Almost certainly overfitting since there is no real test set. His theory also does not account for the topic of this link: extreme success of a minority group.