It was really about the roots of inequality – a question as old as human history itself. Greek and Roman ruins, Mayan sculpture Jared Diamond: Why, since ancient times, have some societies ...

Geographer and polymath Jared Diamond argues that apparently slight differences in geography can have profound consequences for the culture and history of nations. In this talk, recorded in his ...

One counterintuitive strain of thought has treated this decision as “the worst mistake in the history of the human race,” as ...

Martin Sieff, Washington Times "An epochal work. Diamond has written a summary of human history that can be accounted, for the time being, as Darwinian in its authority."— Thomas M. Disch ...

Jared Diamond’s new book, The World Until Yesterday, is a macro examination of what Western, educated, industrialized, rich, democratic societies (WEIRD is Diamond’s handy, oft-repeated ...

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Harari is an Israeli professor who set out to write a book for his students that would give them a grounding in human history as a whole. It has since been translated into 30 languages ...