Geography. China is a single massive culture because of its geography, while Europe is full of easily defended borders. When China makes a mistake, the entire empire makes that mistake, as was the case following the scuttling of its great fleets. If one European state decided -
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- to become insular or to reject a technology, a dozen other European states would rush in to take advantage of that mistake. It’s all explained in great detail in the book. Listen to Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond on Audible. https://www.audible.com/pd?asin=B004G7VN04&source_code=ASSORAP0511160006 …pic.twitter.com/iqxC04WCDM
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I reviewed it in 1997:https://www.unz.com/isteve/contra-jared-diamonds-guns-germs-and/ …
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I actually think the book does a solid job explaining why Eurasia overtook the rest of the world. But I mean, if geography was so determinative, why was China so ahead of Europe in 700 AD, more mixed around 1600, and outclassed by 1850?
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(And by solid job, I don't mean a perfect or flawless one. Just one that upon reading makes you say, "Ah, makes sense." The West overtaking the rest of Eurasia and New Guineans being genetically smarter don't add up the same way.)
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He's bright enough - he just doesn't think you are.
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Plenty of people fall for confirmation bias. The great thing about geographic… I don’t want to say determinism, how about geoculturalism, is that you can broadly analyze history without resorting to racist explanations, either White Supremacy or the evil Ice People argument.
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Jared Diamond did a study early in his career about testicle size by race (published in Nature) - he knows that different selective pressures resulted in different adaptations. He's not mistaken, he's lying.pic.twitter.com/jWQTIqn9qr
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I fail to see that he did anything more than analyze a paper that passed peer review. He’s not lying about twinning being relatively uncommon for mothers of Asian ancestry. https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/encyclopedia/content.aspx?contenttypeid=85&contentid=P08019 …pic.twitter.com/qkQrna8iBI
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The lie is that he knows that different selective pressures on the races selected for different traits *related to behavior*. Elevated twinning implies parental investment was less important. Increased testes size implies lack of marriage, etc. The brain is a physical organ.
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