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Date: 03 May 2001
Time: 22:54:11
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Josh,
Here is the quote from the first page of "Guns, Germs and Steel":
"Guns, Germs and Steel is nothing less than an enquiry into the reasons why Europe and the Near East became the cradle of modern societies - eventually giving rise to capitalism and science - and why, until recent times, Africa, Australasia and the Americas lagged behind in technological sophistication and in political and military power. The native people of those continents are still suffering the consequences.
"Diamond shows definitively that the origins of the inequality in human fortunes cannot be laid at the door of race or inherent features of the people themselves. He argues that the inequality stems instead from the differing natural resources available to the people of each continent".
Does that answer your question?
Horace