Guns, Germs, and Steel Summary (Jared Diamond) - Why Do Some Countries Succeed & Others Fail? 🌏

[@davepx1]

Language and culture long pre-dated agriculture! Writing came later, but writing isn't the same thing as language, it's just a representation of it. And cultures became more complex as numbers increased, but pre-agricultural societies had cultures too.
And geographical advantage/disadvantage isn't just about the natural resources or ecology of a given area, it's also about proximity to major inter-regional flows of people, products & innovation. You can live in a fertile earthly paradise, but you'll still be economically undeveloped and a sitting duck for someone else's acquisitiveness if you're not part of what's going on in the wider world.

[@JFCotman]

Meh!
Weak explanation of the book and 40 year study it depicts
The inequality of racial demographics isn’t as debated amongst anthropologists as you made out and is what Dr Diamonds work set out to make clear in the first place.
Namely, White and Asian success today is due to better geographical positioning in the ancient world, not because they’re oh so innovative and hard working

[@barbaraschumacher3861]

Thank you for bringing this up. At the beginning of the book, Diamond makes the point that his Papua New Guinean friend is more intelligent than the average European.

[@user-kw8uc5so8y]

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[@jmm1817]

why is it the white guy at the top of the Heap on his cell phone instead of the Asian guy. It's all culture doesn't have anything to do with color

[@satori-in-life]

What??

[@eastwood4006]

?? Well yes, that's what this book is talking about.