![]() ![]() ![]() You'd taken the time to inflict my work on your students. Needless to say I was quite flattered that While ego-surfing last night I came across your class page devoted toĬomments about my article. And Kristin Rose puzzles over why work done in the 1960 hasn't yet filtered down to America's elementary schools. Other comments I found especially interesting include John Janda, who starts well-saying that the article is "quite interesting although a bit biased"-but then, alas, doesn't tell us how it is biased. I think this is something that Diamond doesn't qite grasp. Lauren Tombari asks a good question about relatively slow technological development: "does this imply that domestic animals and uniform agricultural climates are more important in determining development rates than population size?" I think it does. ![]() ![]() Sarah Lim laments the cruel irony of history: it was the corn developed by the Amerindians that saved the Pilgrims, and the diseases brought by the Pilgrims that killed the Amerindians. I found Grace Park's comment thought provoking: how should we evaluate Amerindian fire-setting in order to create the American countryside that they wanted? It's a good question. ![]()
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