Jack Oughton
n Guns Germs and Steel Jared Diamond argues that history followed different courses
for different peoples because of differences among peoples’ environments.
The Eurasian
domination of the planet he claims is not a product of any human...
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Jack Oughton
n Guns Germs and Steel Jared Diamond argues that history followed different courses
for different peoples because of differences among peoples’ environments.
The Eurasian
domination of the planet he claims is not a product of any human factors, but of
environmental determinism, and that these human factors that allowed Eurasia to prevail
in a colonial sense, only arose because Europe had the most favourable environment for the
development of the societies within it.
I
His argument is expansive, incorporating his wide expertise in a myriad of environmental
factors, from evolutionary biology, human physiology, linguistics, anthropology, geography
and history.
I believe however, that even this expansive argument cannot hope to address
every single environmental factor which accounts for the hegemony of Eurasian civilization,
and by its deterministic nature, ignores the most important part of what shapes human
history, humans themselves!
Although his work is an in
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