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- How does Diamond refute the charge that Australia is proof that differences in the Fates of Human Societies are a matter of people and not the environment?
- How does Diamond explain the fact that Domesticable American apples and grapes were not domesticated until the arrival of Europeans?
- What are the criticisms of Diamond's arguments?
- What was the question posed to Diamond that made him come to this theory?
- What gave Europeans especially the Spaniards a massive advantage over the Incan army?
- What is the lethal gift of livestock described by Diamond?
- How does Diamond explain China's striking unity and Europe's persistent disunity?
- What is the main idea of Guns, Germs, and Steel?
- What aspects of Diamond's evidence do lay readers have to take on faith which aspects are explained?
- What are criticisms of Jared Diamond's Guns Germs and Steel argument from anthropology?
- What role do animals play in Diamond's theory?
- Why is agriculture the worst mistake in human history?
- What evidence does Diamond provide to back up his thesis?
- What does Diamond seek to explain in his research?
- What question is Diamond trying to answer what is the essence of Yali's question )?
How does Diamond refute the charge that Australia is proof that differences in the Fates of Human Societies are a matter of people and not the environment?
How does Diamond refute the charge that Australia is proof that differences in the fates of human societies are a matter of people and not environment? Jard Diamond refutes this by saying that because of Australias lack of extravagant plant and animal life, therefor it is not necessarily the peoples fault.
How does Diamond explain the fact that Domesticable American apples and grapes were not domesticated until the arrival of Europeans?
How does Diamond explain the fact that American apples and grapes were not domesticated until the arrival of the Europeans? ... Therefore, Diamond says geographical luck caused Eurasians to start agriculture much earlier than Native Americans, thus giving them the time to learn how to domesticate apples.
What are the criticisms of Diamond's arguments?
Other critics say that for all of Diamond's efforts to combat racism, he has botched discussion of race, especially in Africa. And some of the criticism also notes Diamond's star status, sometimes moving into a mocking tone of the sort that professors almost always receive when they get their own television shows.
What was the question posed to Diamond that made him come to this theory?
There, in 1974, a local named Yali asked Diamond a deceptively simple question: “Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo, but we black people had little cargo of our own?” Diamond realized that Yali's question penetrated the heart of a great mystery of human history -- the roots of global inequality.
What gave Europeans especially the Spaniards a massive advantage over the Incan army?
Horses gave Europeans another massive advantage – they could be ridden. To the Incas, the sight of Pizarro's conquistadors passing through their land is extraordinary. They've never seen people carried by their animals before.
What is the lethal gift of livestock described by Diamond?
And Diamond realizes that European diseases like smallpox were a fatal inheritance of thousands of years of mammal domestication – the lethal gift of livestock.
How does Diamond explain China's striking unity and Europe's persistent disunity?
This made China more politically unified and kept Europe disunited. You can answer this by reading in the Epilogue. There, Diamond tells us that geography is responsible for the differences in how much China and Europe were able to become unified politically. Diamond says that geography makes Europe less able to unify.
What is the main idea of Guns, Germs, and Steel?
Diamond's main theme in Guns, Germs, and Steel is that the advantage of one society over another is not based on race or intelligence as some historians have claimed but instead on geography. Certain favorable aspects of local geography allow a group of people who live in that area to more easily produce food.
What aspects of Diamond's evidence do lay readers have to take on faith which aspects are explained?
Diamond's arguments are plausible, but they cannot be proven. So, lay readers must take essentially all of the book on faith because they do not many (if any) of the facts in the book independently. However, some claims that Diamond makes (those about seed size of ancient plants) are provable with research.
What are criticisms of Jared Diamond's Guns Germs and Steel argument from anthropology?
The book has raised much controversy, and many leading scholars disagree with Diamond's approach. The main criticism against this book is that it neglects the impact of human agency and overemphasizes the role of geography.
What role do animals play in Diamond's theory?
Diamond asserts that those living in temperate climates with indigenous animals that could be domesticated were more likely to develop advanced civilizations.
Why is agriculture the worst mistake in human history?
Archaeologists studying the rise of farming have reconstructed a crucial stage at which we made the worst mistake in human history Forced to choose between limiting population or trying to increase food production, we chose the latter and ended up with starvation, warfare, and tyranny.
What evidence does Diamond provide to back up his thesis?
Diamond's Evidence. In order to make his thesis plausible, Diamond must show that there were crucially important geographical differences between the homelands of those societies that wound up as conquerors and those that turned out to be the vanquished. He has exerted tremendous ingenuity in attempting to do so.
What does Diamond seek to explain in his research?
Diamond explains that early explanations for the differences in human development focused on “innate ability” and later on “evolutionary descent,” and finally on “genetics” (p. 18).
What question is Diamond trying to answer what is the essence of Yali's question )?
Yali's question for Diamond is: “Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo … but we black people had little cargo of our own?” The book we're about to read is, at its core, Diamond's attempt to answer Yali's question.
