In the
Pulitzer-prize winning book : The Fates of Human Societies, authorargues
that environmental differences rather than inherent differences between races are responsible
for some cultures becoming dominant in the modern world. As Diamond explains in histo the book,
the impetus for his study came while he was walking on a beach in New Guinea with a local
politician named Yali, who posed the question: "Why is it that you white people developed
so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our
own?" As Diamond explains:
Although Yali's question
concerned only the contrasting lifestyles of New Guineans and of European whites, it can be
extended to a larger set of contrasts within the modern world.
To explain why geography was overwhelmingly responsible for the variations in the
speed of development of civilizations, Diamond uses arguments from the fields of biology,
zoology, social sciences, and microbiology....
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