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crntaylor on Oct 10, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Should we stop believing Malcolm Gladwell?

This paper is really interesting - thanks. Some of my archaeologist friends have criticised Diamond's books for being too simplistic and using outdated techniques (even when they were written in the 80s and 90s) but I had never really figured out why they were wrong before.

route66 on Oct 10, 2013 [–]

http://digitaljournal.com/article/302333 discusses limitations of Diamond's approach, http://www.livinganthropologically.com/anthropology/guns-ger... mentions where the GGS approach to explain history falls short, http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2005/08/03/ggs makes an interesting note of framing in GGS.

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