Thursday, January 24, 2019

Class Notes

Guns, Germs, and Steel

  • Jared Dimon
    • Professor at U.C.L.A.
    • Biologist 
    • specialist in human physiology
    • Bird watcher
    • lead bird expert in Papua New Guinea 
  • Divided the world into haves and have nots
  • he wanted to know how it got this way
  • He was in Papua New Guinea
  • people have been living in New Guinea for around 40,000 years
  • Yali asked a question to Jared "Why do you white men have so much cargo and we New Guineans have so little. 

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