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    GGS: Chapter 1 Vocabulary

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    Textual vocabulary and main ideas for discussing / writing about Chapter 1 of Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond.

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    Chapter One Vocabulary

    * head start --> Yali's Question --> cargo a.k.a. cargo = metaphor for
    material culture
    * prehistory
    * non-/culture-preserving (no art/music)
    * Great Leap Forward --> voicebox + language + brain organization
    * parallel v. single evolution
    * range extension --> watercraft
    * geographic range
    * fluke-colonization theory
    * megafaunal species
    * protohumans --> humanoids --> humans
    * population growth + site profusion ==> virgin land colonization ==> virgin
    land colonization ==> animal extinction spasms = no domesticables (plants/animals)
    * or was climactic theory responsible for animal extinction spasms?
    * land mass + environmental diversity = ??

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