I have many mixed feelings about Diamond. GG&S basically inspired me to study what I do (history of globalization), but the more I do original research and talk

I have many mixed feelings about Diamond. GG&S basically inspired me to study what I do (history of globalization), but the more I do original research and talk to experts in the field, the less I think he actually got it right. Relatedly, I found this to be one of the better articles on the topic of what evidence Diamond's super big picture vantage point tends to miss, although it comes at it from the perspective of an anthropologist rather than an historian: http://theappendix.net/issues/2013/4/anthropology-footnoted-jared-diamonds-the-world-until-yesterday http://theappendix.net/issues/2013/4/anthropology-footnoted-...