The recent SFI public lecture by Jeffrey Sachs reminded me of the Guns,
Germs, and Steel book by Jared Diamond. I found an interesting
condensed version of the book .. a talk Jared gave in 2000 .. which
summarizes his ideas nicely:
http://www.biology.missouri.edu/courses/bio302_cocroft/
bio302_cocroft_protected/Diamond.pdf
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