Prologue: Yali's Question
Jared Diamond has done much research in New Guinea.  His friend, local New Guinean; Yali, asked why whites had been so successful compared to the locals.  Diamond, while looking into Yali’s question, wants to prove that the differences in success have nothing to do with racial intelligence, but rather environmental differences. He starts with saying that stone people "are on the average probably more intelligent, not less intelligent, than industrialized peoples." He says the New Guineans may not be technologically smart like Europeans, but they are a lot fitter than any European put in their environment. He traces back these differences in the folds of history.

Chapter 1: Up to the Starting Line
Upright humans first appeared 4 million years ago, but the Great Leap Forward happened 50,000 years ago, when cave art and stone tolls appeared. About the same time, humans appeared in Australia and New Guinea by the use of watercraft. Mass extinctions of......

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