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Quality
The author is highly perceptive in extracting lessons from his daily-life observations while living with the tribes of all type... Read More
Systems that worked just well enough to keep afloat until another fix was implemented.
Competitiveness
And economic relationships driven by mutual favors and long term trading are in some ways more stable and less alienating, thou... Read More
Someone who lives nowhere in the real world.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The sections on language and diet are preachy without throwing any new lights
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The natural conclusion though perhaps not the last book from mr
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Diamond to jared diamonds books from the third chimpanzee 1991 through why is sex fun and guns germs and steel both 1997 and collapse 2005
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The world until yesterday 2012 is a must read for anyone who wishes to understand why there will never be peace in the middle east or much of africa and southeast asia and why george w bushs and dick cheneys forages into afghanistan and iraq were doomed to failure from day 1
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I particularly enjoyed diamond’s discussions and clarifications on•the differences between perceived proximate immediate causes of problems and ultimate causes of problems
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The downside is that when someone is wronged they or their families may seek revenge often in acts of violence
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From the fact that chimpanzees mostly adolescents and young adults will go to war against other chimps it appears likely that there is an innate disposition towards such violence in some primates