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Jared Diamond’s wholistic view on the state of the world today, Guns, Germs, & Steel, is coming to PBS, by way of National Geographic. For those of you who haven’t read it yet, the book takes a look at the last 13,000 years or so of human history to try and answer some of the questions as to why the world is the way it is. He proposes that natural, geographic, and environmental factors are why Europe was able to advance quicker than, say Africa (due to the applicability of technologies across longitude as opposed to latitude, etc.), why the Maori tribespeople overpowered the Maoriori, and other cases of one society winning over another. It’s a very interesting look at how “fate” “destined” the world to be as it is today, and I recommend it to anyone who hasn’t read it yet.

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