YouTube documentary on Dr. Jared Diamonds theories. Dr. Jared Diamond is an American author. He works as a professor of geography and physiology‚ and he is most recognized for his book “Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel”‚ which he wrote in 1998. The book analyses his own theory on the evolution of society and what he thinks influenced the world to become what it is now in terms of wealth‚ development and culture. Yali‚ who was a guide in Papua - New Guinea that Dr. Diamond met‚ once asked him‚ “Why is
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Jared Diamond Jared Diamond was a professor at UCLA in Los Angeles. He was a biologist by training‚ and a specialist in human physiology. But his real passion has always been the study of birds. He began watching the birds when he was about seven years old in the United States. He arrived in New Guinea at the age of 26 and he felt that it was love at first sight. Diamond started to make regular trips to New Guinea and ever since‚ he decides to be the leading expert on the bird life of the island
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August 28th‚ 2013 YooSeob Jung Jared Diamond Essay 730 words In the modern time period lifestyle in which we live in now‚ it is a very common belief that agriculture was one of the greatest turning points in history. It had made our life much more convenient. Producing food wasn’t such a big issue anymore. To some‚ the change from hunter-gatherers to farmers is referred to as the most enlightening gift ever given to the human race. As though all these people consider it as a positive‚ some
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Through careful sociological studies‚ one can see that the impact of agriculture is beneficial to life. In the article “The Worst Mistake of the Human Race” by Jared Diamond‚ he argues that agriculture “was in many ways a catastrophe” and “with agriculture came the gross social and sexual inequality‚ the disease and despotism‚ that curse our existence.” Although this may be somewhat true‚ many would disagree. Agriculture doesn’t lead to inequality nor diseases. The differences between humans lead
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Jared Diamond is… interesting. The argument that Jared Diamond makes in his article‚ “The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race”‚ is completely refutable. There is very little evidence in the article that makes sense‚ and most of it appears to be that Diamond just has a grudge against the laziness of the modern world. This is where Diamond and I agree. The modern world is incredibly lazy. We now live in a world where fast food is a food group‚ and technology is being used incorrectly‚ resulting
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Jared Diamond is a scientist and is the author of “The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race.” The article isn’t the clearest on what could be better. Would the human race have been better off living with the need to hunt and gather for their life‚ or would agriculture be the key to the survival for the human race? Jared believes moving back to a hunting/gathering lifestyle would be beneficiary to us. I believe Jared Diamond makes some great points‚ but that agriculture was a necessity for
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Jared Diamond is a biologist whose area of expertise is birds. His studies took him to Papua New Guinea‚ where he utilized his skills to study all of the bird species inhabiting the island. One day‚ a PNG inhabitant‚ Yali‚ came up and asked Diamond a question: “Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo‚ but we black people had little cargo of our own?” Diamond argues that the answer to Yali’s question wasn’t racial inequality like so many people assume it is. Diamond began his research
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Jared Diamond Essay/Notes –Pizarro and the Inca emperor‚ Atahualpa The European nation relationships first encounter was between the Inca emperor‚ Atahualpa and the Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro. Francisco Pizarro had come with an army of 108 men‚ against Atahualpa’s army of 80‚000. Francisco Pizarro believed in the same similar concepts to manifest destiny. He (and his army) massacred many‚ by tricking the emperor to come unarmed. Furthermore he confused the Indians with loud noises
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Jared Diamond. “The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race” Jared Diamond writes about the consequences of agriculture on the human race. He suggests that the earliest farming societies did not have an easier more productive lifestyle than hunter-gatherer societies‚ contrary to popular belief. For example‚ the Kalahari Bushmen spend a mere average of 12 to 19 hours a week to getting food‚ and on average sleep a lot‚ work less hard‚ and have more free time than people in hunter-gatherer societies
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Inspired by a question that put him on the island of Papua New Guinea more than thirty years ago‚ Jared Diamond embarked on a worldwide quest to understand the roots of global inequality. This inequality lies in the question of - Why were Europeans the ones to conquer the most amount of land around the world? The answer‚ according to Jared Diamond‚ is guns‚ germs‚ steel‚ and geographical luck. Geographical luck is what stemmed and brought up a vast majority of the Europeans luck in acquiring such
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