Guns, Germs and Steel 1/18

Episode 1----"The first episode, 'Out of Eden', proposes that a society's potential for advanced development was not determined by race or creed, or by time and experience, but by access to domesticated animals and cultivated plants."


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[jawade42]

I'd say the answer to his question is intelligence combined with ambition, curiosity, and perhaps most importantly trade. I'm not saying the others didn't have any intelligence but without ambition it doesn't get you farther than basic survival. Geography and climate play a huge role in trade and whether or not survival requires more ingenuity in some places in order to survive. Its disingenuous to act like everyone is equal everywhere and that they have evolved at exactly the same rate.

[Munro1Man]

Simply brilliant. Thank you so much for this upload. Read his Third Chimpanzee and it was, as this is, an excellent thought provoking piece of research.