guns germs and steel part 1

• control of plants and livestock
• to get out of the starting phase is to have a surplus of food
• Jared Diamond
• Papua, New Guinea
• professor at UCLA
• he started out as a biologist
• he really likes to study birds

Why does a white man have so much cargo and New Guineans don't?

• colonials believed power was determined by race-they saw themselves as genetically superior