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Campus personalities present and past Rebecca C. Brown and Tommaso Sciortino tackle the issues. This week on a very special CalJunket: Rebecca learns not to chew with her mouth open and Tommaso finds out his best friend is addicted to no-doze. Site feed: caljunket.blogspot.com/atom.xml
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Saturday, February 19, 2005
So I just finished reading Jared Diamond's two books, "Guns, Germs, & Steel” about how and why societies start and grow at different rates, and “Collapse” about how and why some societies end and wane at different rates. It's all very interesting stuff and very scientifically painstaking. At one point he categorizes all the grasses of the world by seed size to show that hunter-gathers living in the fertile crescent, with two of the largest seeded grasses in the world, had an easier time starting agriculture. In another analysis of all large land mammals, he explains why Aurochs* could be domesticated, but not Bison... To read the exciting conclusion to this post click here to go to my other site. Comment over there please! |
