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TALES FROM THE WORLD BEFORE YESTERDAY

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From Conversation:
TALES FROM THE WORLD BEFORE YESTERDAY
A Conversation with
Jared Diamond
[12.31.12]
Topic:
LIFE
 
TALES FROM THE WORLD BEFORE YESTERDAY In Guns, Germs, and Steel, I set out to explain why, after the end of the last Ice Age, the most powerful and technologically advanced societies developed first in the Fertile Crescent and spread from there to Europe and North America. In Collapse, I asked why many societies disintegrated or vanished while others avoided that fate, and what lessons those varying outcomes hold for us today.  Since publication of Collapse, I have been attempting to understand the revolutionary changes in human societies and social relations brought about by the emergence of state government, after seven million years of simpler forms of organization. The differences are so profound, and we take state government as so completely natural, that I... Go to conversation
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