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They really just lied to us about committing a genocide on the Rapa Nui (lemmy.nz)
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[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 9 points 2 months ago

Guns Germs and Steel is wildly oversimplified, and he implies a background in history when his education is actually in the sciences. In general anthropologists see his assessments as shallow, a pretty common issue with popular nonfiction writers.