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Book #88 of 2017: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond A dry but interesting account of world history through the lens of cultural materialism, an anthropological theory holding that differences in environment can explain much of the variation that exists across cultures. For historian Jared Diamond, this approach essentially …

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