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TALES FROM THE WORLD BEFORE YESTERDAY

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From Conversation:
TALES FROM THE WORLD BEFORE YESTERDAY
A Conversation with
Jared Diamond
[12.31.12]
Topic:
LIFE
 
INTRODUCTION Over the years I've had the privilege to work with some of the more interesting thinkers of our time, individuals who, through their research in biology, physics, psychology, computer science, provide us with the evidence-based results that are the basis of the most reliable method of our knowledge about who and what we are. In this regard, nothing beats sitting down with Jared Diamond after one of his many (41 to date) trips to New Guinea to listen to this master story-teller hold forth on the windows to our past, whether the topic is rare birds, "primitive peoples", birth practices, the lives of the old, war, or the characteristics of all human societies until the rise of state societies with laws and government, beginning around 5,500 years ago. A few... Go to conversation
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