Re: Why the West has 'won'

From: Sarah Marr (sarah.marr@dial.pipex.com)
Date: Mon Aug 04 1997 - 16:19:20 MDT


Mark Crosby wrote:

>There’s a nice bite-size version of
>this (along with fairly recent comments from many people such as Greg
>Benford and Kevin Kelly) in Diamond’s paper "Why Did Human History
>Unfold Differently On Different Continents For The Last 13,000 Years?"
> at http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/diamond/diamond_p1.html

Thanks Mark, this is a very interesting article. (In fact the whole site
looks like a fascinating and worthwhile Extropina resource.) Anyone who has
been following the 'meme supremecy' and 'racist' threads would probably
enjoy reading of Diamond's paper.

Sarah

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