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Jared Diamond lunch interview

Last week, the Financial Times had lunch with Jared Diamond.

"Was it a cultural choice that the Inuit up in the Arctic did not become farmers? No, it wasn't. You could not have agriculture in the Arctic," he bristles. "So it seems to me that the rise of agriculture in the modern world really does involve strong environmental influences. And if you want to call that geographical determinism, you can call it geographical determinism.

By Jason Kottke    Aug 10, 2009 at 06:15 pm    interviews   Jared Diamond

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