One of his ideas was criticized in Deutsch's The Beginning of Infinity, which states that the enlightenment happens due to memetic emergence in static societies, rather than this author's thesis that geography gave Europe an advantage.
One article by this man traces the history of the keyboard and uses it to bash slavish commitment to tradition. This author of "The Curse of QWERTY" discussed the evolution of u-shaped ovaries and the reason humans tend to copulate in private in another work. One of his ideas was criticized in Deutsch's The Beginning of Infinity, which states that the enlightenment happens due to memetic emergence in static societies, rather than this author's thesis that geography gave Europe an advantage. Another work uses the examples of deforestation on Easter Island and overpopulation in Rwanda leading to genocide as examples of the title phenomena. This author of Why is Sex Fun and Collapse wrote a work detailing how animal domestication, division of labor, and resistance to diseases led to Europe's colonial dominance. For 10 points, name this geographer and author of Guns, Germs, and Steel.
One article by this man traces the history of the keyboard and uses it to bash slavish commitment to tradition.
Jared Diamond 