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  **PROLOGUE**WHAT ARE THE OTHER COMMONLY ESPOUSED ANSWERS TO YALI'S QUESTION AND HOW DOES JD ADRESS AND REFUTE EACH ONE OF THEM??**********************

  Posted by lane7895 on Sep 11, 2009 at 07:08 PM

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  **WHAT IS THE IMPORTANCE OF THE ORDER OF THE CHAPTERS IN GUNS, GERMS, AND STEEL? EX. Y IS COLLISION AT CAJAMARCA PLACED IN NON CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER?

  Posted by yankees78 on Sep 9, 2009 at 06:32 PM

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  **Chapter 13** How does Diamond's theory that invention is, in fact, the mother of necessity bear upon the traditional "heroic" model of invention?

  Posted by lane7895 on Sep 9, 2009 at 06:15 PM

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  In Guns, Germs, and Steel, by Jared diamond, how does comparing mutations help one trace the spread of agriculture?

  Posted by lane7895 on Sep 7, 2009 at 07:31 PM

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  According to Diamond, how does religion evolve along with increasingly complex societies?

  Posted by lane7895 on Sep 6, 2009 at 05:13 PM

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  How is linguistic evidence used to draw conclusions about the spread of peoples in China, Southeast Asia, the Pacific, and Africa?

  Posted by yankees78 on Sep 6, 2009 at 05:05 PM

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  In Guns, Germs, and Steel, what is the significance of the differing outcomes of Austronesian expansion in Indonesia and New Guinea?

  Posted by lane7895 on Sep 5, 2009 at 11:22 AM

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  In Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond, what are the other commonly espoused answers to "Yali's question," and how does JD address and refute each

  Posted by lane7895 on Sep 3, 2009 at 11:00 AM

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  In Parts II & III, how did Jared Diamond’s analysis account for & fail to account for the importance of “systems of production"?

  Posted by thomasthegreat on Aug 23, 2009 at 04:01 PM

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  Can someone explain five theories on the development of writing in chapter 12 of Jared Diamond's book Guns, Germs, and Steel?

  Posted by ak4777777 on Aug 7, 2009 at 10:10 PM

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  Why does Diamond hypothesize that New Guineans might be, on the average, "smarter" than Westerners?

  Posted by arani94 on Aug 3, 2009 at 10:34 AM

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  Why did almonds prove domesticable while acorns were not?

  Posted by erik23 on Oct 15, 2008 at 06:11 PM

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  Which chapters in Guns, Germs, and Steel are stronger and which are problematic?

  Posted by qcumber on Aug 2, 2008 at 04:28 PM