The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?

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The world until yesterday explores the origins of the germ theory of disease. The author is also the author of guns, germs, and steel and the third chimpanzee.

Jared diamond is a travel/cultural guide to the world of the hunter/gatherers. He explains why humans resort to war and establishing peace. Diamond also explains how religion serves varieties of societal functions for maintaining social stability.

This is a good compendium of classical hunter-gatherer studies. The author is highly perceptive in extracting lessons from his daily-life observations.

This is one of the most concise and helpful discussion of religion i have seen.

Warring appears to be a behavior of humans for as long as recorded history. From the fact that chimpanzees will go to war against other chimps, it appears likely that there is an innate disposition towards such violence in some primates. The problem w... Read More

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He fails to consider the notion that ideas are synonymous with the function of thought, where thought requires energy. This alone puts him on weak footing to draw any contrast on science-v-religion a subject he infers as mystical.

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My audio book version (well performed by jay snyder) was hard to put down because it was so well written, stimulating, thought ... Read More

His more thorough books provide a detailed framework for understanding human evolution, human behavior, human nature, and the v... Read More

Diamond is excellent while on descriptive grounds.

Systems that worked just well enough to keep afloat until another fix was implemented.

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Don't allow these sections to diminish the value of what comes before.

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It did start out slow (not sure i would want to continue) but quickly picked up.

Apart from trying to read every book produced by the writer my oldest brother spent many years patrolling new guinea in service... Read More

Competitiveness

Jared diamond explains how "societies," working together, evolved systems that functioned marginally better than their status quo.

You'll never see yourself --or others-- in quite the same way because diamond's lucid explanations (and conjectures) remind us ... Read More

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This product had a total of 1,245 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jun 10 2024.