Since I'm reading this about 18 years after it was first published and probably 14 years since I bought and first perused it, it never seemed very shocking to me. That is, the different historical trajectories of Africa and Europe stem ultimately from differences in real estate.” - Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel This is one of those books that once you finish, you sit back and say "yeah, um, duh". Rather, it was due to accidents of geography and biogeography-in particular, to the continents’ different areas, axes, and suites of wild plant and animal species. “In short, Europe’s colonization of Africa had nothing to do with differences between European and African peoples themselves, as white racists assume.
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