jan 25, 1997 - Guns Germs and Steel Published; New York
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Diamond's best know book is based off of 25 years of research into a question posed to him by a friend from his travels to New Guinea. “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?" The question, known as Yali's question, lead Diamond to the answer that it was not a particular people that predisposed a society to a certain fate, but rather a combination of geographic factors beyond human control.
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