Guns, Germs, & Steel was fascinating. Not so, say, mind-blowing, but the irrevocable, logical flow of events... How civilisation progressed this way and no other way. And why.
Humans are just too damn good, man. We are the mass extinction. We adapt to our environments. We gut them. It's up to circumstance to feed our ever-increasing hunger. East-
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