re: #191 freetoken

I consider Diamond’s popular books to be just that - popularizations of topics that are almost intractable due to their complexity.

At least he tries to paint a bigger picture covering human past and future.

I quite liked ‘The Third Chimpanzee’ but found some of the value judgments he made based on incomplete info in Guns, Germs and Steel a bit annoying. Once you get past the way he presents things, or take it for what it is, a popularization, his books are enlightening.