http://www.danvk.org/wp/2009-10-27/guns-germs-and-steel/ Keepin' static like wool fabric since 2006 Wed, 08 Oct 2014 14:33:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.2 http://www.danvk.org/wp/2009-10-27/guns-germs-and-steel/comment-page-1/#comment-27567 Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:01:10 +0000 http://www.danvk.org/wp/?p=600#comment-27567 [...] Guns, Germs, Steel, Jered Diamond My thoughts on why this is a really bad book are documented in another blog post. [...]

]]> http://www.danvk.org/wp/2009-10-27/guns-germs-and-steel/comment-page-1/#comment-25708 Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:13:12 +0000 http://www.danvk.org/wp/?p=600#comment-25708 No, he wasn’t that disingenuous. He’s presenting this as a nice, clean example of two genetically-identical populations developing in isolation with only environmental factors differing. And that’s true. It’s just that the Maori conquering the Moriori doesn’t follow from that, and he’s acting as though it did. The British involvement is very, very relevant!

]]> http://www.danvk.org/wp/2009-10-27/guns-germs-and-steel/comment-page-1/#comment-25706 Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:26:34 +0000 http://www.danvk.org/wp/?p=600#comment-25706 Was he actually suggesting that the Maori developed firearms in that period of time, or does he allow it to be more indirect? Perhaps their agrarian society is what allowed them to effectively trade with the British whaling ship.

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