This book's epilogue notes that scientists can't experimentally control galaxy formation or dinosaur extinctions, but still make theories about the future that are trusted more than historians'.
This book's epilogue notes that scientists can't experimentally control galaxy formation or dinosaur extinctions, but still make theories about the future that are trusted more than historians'. This book distinguishes "blueprint copying" from the less-direct "idea diffusion," noting that the maker of the Phaistos disk isn't known for inventing printing. This work argues that the north-south alignment of a geographic "major axis" prevented llamas from being traded to Mesoamerica, and posits the so-called "Anna Karenina principle" to show why horses, but not zebras, can be domesticated. This book often uses examples from the author's time in New Guinea, and profiles 168 Spaniards' defeat of the Inca, while reframing "Yali's question" to ask why the reverse didn't happen. For 10 points, name this book arguing that geographic factors determined societies' level of dominance in history, leading to Eurasia's mastery of the title three things, by Jared Diamond.
This book's epilogue notes that scientists can't experimentally control galaxy formation or dinosaur extinctions, but still make theories about the future that are trusted more than historians'.
{Guns, Germs, and Steel}: The Fates of Human Societies