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Jared Diamond's "Guns, Germs and Steel" has received a lot of pushback from experts in various disciplines; can you recommend better-received books that deal with the same topic(s)? (lemmy.world)
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Better-received by experts, that is!

Or is the book actually well-regarded on the whole and still worth reading despite the criticisms? I'm not in a position to know, unfortunately, as I'm an uneducated schmuck.

Thank you!

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I found this to have a similar vibe, but I think it’s backed up by actual science rather than being kind of anecdotal

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

https://archive.org/details/1491.newrevelationsoftheamericasbeforecolumbusbycharlesc.mann/mode/1up?

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