Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond, Lamarckian? Behaviorist?

I have made a follow up clarification video, PLEASE look on my channel.

Thanks to tooltime9901 for recommending this. The book is available on audiobook, and has been made into a Nat Geo 3 part series (3 hours total), available on Netflix.

I believe Jared Diamond's book that seeks to explain inequalities of civilizations (Thank God he isn't denying that there's actually differences in civilization), is wrong because it puts too much emphasis on environment, and fails to explain, why New Guineans, even having been given pigs for thousands of years, have not created metal tools, developed a sustainable long term agriculture, or even domesticated pigs.

Are New Guineans simply 10,000 years behind Eurasians? Should some of this be attitributed to genetics, or IQ? If populations are isolated for over 10,000 years, and the differences amplified, shouldn't we expect that there are some practically genetic gaps?

I was NOT suggesting that New Guinea is in Africa, but merely the fact Africa remained impoverished even when they had domesticateable animals.

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[jebus6kryst]

Yes, someone could walk across Africa, because it is one homogeneous landscape. All the same climates and animals are found from Egypt to South Africa.

Give me a break.

[spiritualbully]

@jebus6kryst nope, not homogeneous landscape, they just happen to be one homogeneous skin color and we're supposed to believe all humans are homogeneous.

[TheDarkSagan]

I had so much to say, but I am gonna just watch the doc, and do some research before I jump in. 3 hours long damn.

[spiritualbully]

@TheDarkSagan 3 hours is a lot shorter than the book. when you're done watching it , Please watch my follow up video, or read some comments before leaving them here, because chances are some of them have been said and I've responded.

thanks

[Shotosboring1stpick]

I mean look at the southeast Asians. Now they've done the same things that we have done. Places in Africa like Ghana and Niger have infrasctructure, tvs, automobiles, agriculture, etc. I have seen pictures personally from a post grad student or whatever. So, it doesn't seem similar to the New Guinea situation where the people there still didn't know to domesticate pigs.

[Shotosboring1stpick]

Wouldn't the han chinese pick out your physical features as being a malay or aboriginal feature? Anyway, I think environmental views speaks for itself. That the reason you see these differences in intelligence is purely due to environment that lead to different brain development, but that's not to say that we are all not genetically capable of being intelligent, it's just the environment has forced some tribes to use their minds more than others, perhaps. Not that we all came to shore differen

[jemmy141991]

@unclexbob Yes he did, he hasn't read it yet

[ConservativeLogic]

I read this book years ago. Cultural Marxism at it's finest. The book stays away from intelligence. and racial differences. It's just BS theory.

[spiritualbully]

@zelos88 so you have no problem saying that SOME individuals possess more intelligence, but are unwilling to say some populations and groups do. You don't have such a reservation if I asked you about skin color, height, physical strength, vulnerability to diseases, life span...etc.

I don't doubt SOME Africans are smarter than me. That doesn't mean if you were to make a random pick out of a hat you can't have some expectation.

[spiritualbully]

@MultiHypocrisy you got me there.