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Guns, Germs, and Steel Questions and Answers
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"Founder crops' is a term used by Diamond to identify the plants that other cultures adopted to become food producers, which ''enabled local people to become sedentary, and thereby increased the likelihood of local crops' evolving from wild plants...
I think this boils down to lack of greed and being grateful for simplicity.Diamond points out, It’s their ingenuity and their quickness to learn that have always impressed me. They can go empty-handed into some of the most difficult environments...
Diamond concludes that from the end of the Ice Age, geography ensured that different societies around the world would develop at different speeds. If Yali's people had had all the geographic advantages of Europeans, perhaps they could have...
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