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    <![CDATA[Guns, Germs, and Steel]]>
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    <![CDATA[According to the author, an alternative title would be A short history about everyone for the last 13,000 years.  But the book is not merely an account of the past; it attempts to explain why Eurasian civilizations, as a whole, have survived and conquered others, while attempting to refute the belief that Eurasian hegemony is due to any form of Eurasian intellectual, moral, or inherent genetic superiority. Diamond argues that: the gaps in power and technology between human societies originate in environmental differences amplified by various positive feedback loops; and that, if cultural or genetic differences have favored Eurasians (for example Chinese centralized government, or improved disease resistance among Eurasians), it is only so because of the influence of geography.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is what happens when you take an intelligent person, and casually make a few mentions of a field of study they have no knowledge of.<br/><br/>Mr. Diamond, NOT an anthropologist, takes Marvin Harris' theory of cultural materialism and uses it to explain everything in life, history, and the cur...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12304204">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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