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What book is currently on your nightstand? How do you like it? Would you recommend it to others?

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[–] Sami 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Guns, Germs and Steel. Still making my way through it as it can get a little dry but talks about how environment and subsequently food production capacity shaped different populations that spread across the planet and how that translates into the modern world.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just be aware that actual historians have major objections to the accuracy and assumptions of it. It's a fun read, but it isn't really a scholarly work

[–] Sami 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I don't take it to be more than one guy's musings and theories based on his own research.

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