> Meandering OT:
>
> But remember Diamond has been addressing this thesis since the early
> nineteen seventies - he dates Yali's question (about why Papuans had
so
> little 'cargo') to 1972. Curiously, it was in 1972 that biohistorian
Alfred
> Crosby published 'The Columban Exchange: Biological and Cultural
Differences
> (later expanded in Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion
of
> Europe 900-1900) that contains *all* of Diamond's key theses.
>
> The 'student of Diamond' appellation comes from Flannery himself.
>
> John
Its possible that this could be moved to alt.science.antro or to the
Glorantha Digest. We're way off topic.
Jeff