In Guns, Germs, and Steel, how did Diamond answer Yali's question?

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in theto his famous book : The Fates of Human Societies, Yali, a local
politician, asks his question while they are strolling on a beach in New Guinea together in
1972. Yali asks, "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?" Diamond writes that the
entire book is an answer to Yali's question.

In the years
since Yali and I had that conversation, I have studied and written about other aspects of human
evolution, history, and language. This book, written twenty-five years later, attempts to answer
Yali.

To New Guineans, the word "cargo"
represents the material goods that Western people developed and brought into their country. Many
Westerners considered themselves genetically superior to New Guineans and believed that the
answer to Yali's question had to do with race. Diamond found this explanation absurd, as he had
lived and traveled with New...

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