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How does Diamond feel about the traditional theories of human development?
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He feels that they are wrong.
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Which area was prominent in the development of weapons?
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Western Europe
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Where did things like agriculture and writing develop?
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Warm Climates
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Studies have failed to show differences in what among people on different continents?
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Intelligence
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Traditional arguments seeking to explain domination have often focused on what?
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Racial difference
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One argument that people have made is that what stimulated development in Western Europe?
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The cold climate
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Diamond argues that wealth and power are distributed unevenly because what developed at different times?
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Agriculture & Metal Tools
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People often assume that there are what type of differences between people living on different continents?
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Biological
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What does Diamond seek to explain in his research?
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The different rates of human development
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Some people feel that explaining why one group dominates another does what?
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Justifies the domination
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