Thank you, wow...what an all incompassing book, history, technology, biology, anthropology, the story of civilization. A spectacular scholarly work Jared, thank you
1:17:07 the narration went from chapter 1 to chapter 4, while skipping Chapter 2 - A natural experiment of history and Chapter 3 - Collision at Cajamarca!
Time stamps: (I compiled these from the other comments so I'm sorry if something is incorrect) 1- 33:00 2- ? 3- ? 4- 1:17:02 5- 1:34:03 6- 1:48:27 7- 2:08:20 8- ? 9- 2:44:14 10- 3:16:49 11- 3:53:54 12- 4:21:27 13- 4:41:29 14- 5:05:57
This really is an incredible piece of work, it really is a must read for .... everyone.... third time now, and you never fail to discover something new from it
given the recent increase in anxiety and lack of social skills of the world kids living in civilized socieities, poor or rich, JD is somehow correct in his praise of the primitive kids without TV.
Yali's question: The regionally differing courses of history From Eden to Cajamarca. Up to the starting line: What happened on all the continents before 11,000 B.C.? A natural experiment of history: How geography molded societies on Polynesian islands Collision at Cajamarca: Why the Inca emperor Atahuallpa did not capture King Charles I of Spain The rise and spread of food production. Farmer power: The roots of guns, germs, and steel History's haves and have-nots: Geographic differences in the onset of food production To farm or not to farm: Causes of the spread of food production How to make an almond: The unconscious development of ancient crops Apples or Indians: Why did peoples of some regions fail to domesticate plants? Zebras, unhappy marriages, and the Anna Karenina principle: Why were most big wild mammal species never domesticated? Spacious skies and tilted axes: Why did food production spread at different rates on different continents? From food to guns, germs, and steel. Lethal gift of livestock: The evolution of germs Blueprints and borrowed letters: The evolution of writing Necessity's mother: The evolution of technology From egalitarianism to kleptocracy: The evolution of government and religion Around the world in five chapters. Yali's people: The histories of Australia and New Guinea How China became Chinese: The history of East Asia Speedboat to Polynesia: The history of Austronesian expansion Hemispheres colliding: The histories of Eurasia and the Americas compared How Africa became black: The history of Africa The future of human history as a science Who are the Japanese? 2003 afterword: Guns, germs, and steel today.
@@noahhumphrey2293 one of the most recent critic I know of You can find it in the book Human kind: a hopeful history by Rutger Bregman. He debunked some theories that are present in guns germs and steel and went unquestioned for years. Anyway, as one comment above said, I think it's still worth to read it, Jared diamond is surely not an idiot and neither a wannabe, but as in any scientific field in the last decades things changed a lot.
Boy this mug so short. Well for an audiobook i mean. I guess im so use to having to go thru 9 hours of Wealth of Nations this really flew by for me. Even tho im prolly go have to listen a couple more times simce i use these to sleep lbs
It's interdisciplinary. It does cover alot of history, but I agree it covers more anthropology. History - things that were documented in writing. Generally the last 6,000 yrs and specifically, whenever the specific culture began writing. Archeology- Artificial material culture. Neolithic, bronze, iron ages. Things humans created that amounted to personal property. Generally the last 12,000 yrs, specifically its usually whenever the specific culture developed agriculture (planting and animal keeping) or sometimes metallurgy. Physical Anthropology- stones and bones. Pre-Neolithic (mesolithic, upper and lower Paleolithic, can go back even further to anatomically archaic homo sapiens and previous hominini in our direct [ homo erectus] and indirect [ homo neanderthalensis] lineages, even going back to our earliest antecedents capable of part-time walking [Ardipithecus]. There are other branches of Physical Anthropology such as primatology (all extant primates) and modern forensics (understanding a persons life experiences based on their skeletal remains, particularly in regards to their death). Cultural Anthropology- ethnology/ethnography, folklore, or linguistics of a culture or subculture. Traditionally this is specific to a culture before it has written documentation; but today it's also used to examine ANY modern sub/cultures (ie Philly dopefiends , trans ballroom vogue scene, Italian American Mafia, AIDS activists etc). Can also be used in modern context for product development (what colors new phone model comes in).
I love the smiling piglet face between the stacks of books on the right. Is the piglet supposed to be a picture or statue/toy or a real animal in the internal world of the whole image? Why a piglet? Why is it happy? This is what I want to know.
The axis theory that diamond talks about here is faulty, Africa’s width is only 8% less than its length. He seems to have been confused by a nautical map which doesn’t take into consideration that the earth is round?!
Africa's widest part is mostly desert or tropical forest. Diamond is explicit in pointing out that Eurasia's headstart derives from its horizontal axis in a *temperate latitude.*
Charlie Munger recommended this book said he rarely read a book twice but he did for this one. 5:42 Why some races dominate the wealth and power? The other races are left behind. Why the drastic disparity and inequality? 23:52 Climate Diversity might play an important role in technology advancement. Because Europeans have to be proactive and creative to survive the hash winter and dealing with changing seasons, instead warm tropical weather provides a comfort zone.
4:13:16 20 MILLION!!! I wonder where that great civilization is because there is no way that small societies of farmers and hunters can reach that number.
