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The author of one of my all time greatest favorite books of the social sciences (history, anthropology, geography, etc all mixed up together), the Pulitzer Prize winning Guns, Germs, and Steel has a new book out!
Guns, Germs, and Steel went back into pre-history and on into historical time to figure out why some societies became so dominant in world affairs, as all humans from all over the world are so closely related genetically and populations have the same average intelligence. Diamond wrote a fascinating book...
Now he is exploring the opposite problem in Collapse. Rather than exploring why some societies become so dominant, he explores why some completely collapse so spectactularly! He uses both prehistoric societies such as Easter Island, the Anasazi of Chaco Canyon in New Mexico, and the Norse in Greenland -- and also such present failures such as Rwanda and its genocide... ******************************************************
Our lives are the songs that sing the universe into existence.~David Zindell
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