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4 stars
Fundamentlly this is a book about Geographic Determinism and how it shaped the course of human history.
This a good book for someone who has never really read or learnt much about the pre history and evolutions of our societies. It is more dense and detailed than Yuval Noah Hararis bookson this topic (Sapiens, Home Deus).
Jared Diamond goal of this book is to answers the question that he was asked "Why do Gunian people not have guns germs and steel yet the whites do". It covers how we evolved to humans, how we ended up geographically where we are and then how we evoled from caveman to "civilised people". Most of the book however is set on answering why societies developed at different paces in different directions.
I feel that Jared diamond devoted a little too much time debunking the racists idea of inherent superiority. As well as repeating …
Fundamentlly this is a book about Geographic Determinism and how it shaped the course of human history.
This a good book for someone who has never really read or learnt much about the pre history and evolutions of our societies. It is more dense and detailed than Yuval Noah Hararis bookson this topic (Sapiens, Home Deus).
Jared Diamond goal of this book is to answers the question that he was asked "Why do Gunian people not have guns germs and steel yet the whites do". It covers how we evolved to humans, how we ended up geographically where we are and then how we evoled from caveman to "civilised people". Most of the book however is set on answering why societies developed at different paces in different directions.
I feel that Jared diamond devoted a little too much time debunking the racists idea of inherent superiority. As well as repeating himself with the same ideas and similiar examples. He focuses on Guinea and the Americas mostly while giving little treatment to central Eurasia (middle east - India).
Regardless you will elarn alot about the development of early humans, where agriculture came from and why it was the European whites who conquered the Americas and Ocenaia in the modern world.
