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Title: Amazingly smart and original
Review: General statements about the decisive weight of "birth" factors in the trayectory of living systems has been probably presented before, but never with such scope and with so a detailed examination of the precise chain of causation as Mr Diamond has done in this work. Mr Diamond takes nothing less than the entire human history and for his understanding he use for good an absolutely original approach that, supported in the findings of several sciences, put the root of all in a distant past of which seldom an historian had given too much attention before. And if that was not enough, he does so with cristal-clear prose that makes you read it with the same rush from beginning to end as if you were reading a top best seller writter, at his best. An incredible work. Surely Mr Diamond has all the trademarks of genius: powerful and simple, unified explanation of many things, at the same time compelling and thrilling.
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