How did Diamond answer Yali's question? (Epilogue)

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his famous book : The Fate of Human Societies,credits Yali's question with
providing the impetus for the research that led to writing this nonfiction masterpiece. Yali, a
native of New Guinea, 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 spends
the entire book answering Yali's question, and he summarizes his answer in the . At the
beginning of the epilogue's second paragraph, Diamond states:

I would say to Yali: the striking...

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