Jared Diamond delivers a lecture summarizing the core arguments and findings of his book Guns, Germs, and Steel at the Hall Center for the Humanities.
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Diamond reveals that his next book examines humanity's environmental crisis, arguing that current unsustainable resource consumption will inevitably resolve itself within 50 years—either by choice or through catastrophe.
When asked about the most challenging idea in his book, Diamond identifies proving whether the failure to domesticate large mammals outside Eurasia was caused by animal behavior or human culture.
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