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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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  What are the other commonly espoused answers to “Yali’s question,” and how does Jared Diamond address and refute each of them?

  Posted by lvargas1234 on Sep 7, 2009 at 09:13 AM

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

  Posted by arani94 on Jul 24, 2009 at 10:57 AM

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  How is farming an "auto-catalytic" process?

  Posted by southbro6 on Oct 14, 2008 at 06:58 PM

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  What is the importance of the order of chapters?

  Posted by Student15 on Oct 14, 2008 at 06:40 PM

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  What is Jared Diamond's thesis?

  Posted by pixieprincess169 on Jun 2, 2008 at 06:22 PM