effects of sexual selection into language, art, hunting and agriculture, through the idea of honest signaling - sexual signals that also cost the signer. This is extrapolated to explain the appeal of drugs. Finally, the possibility of contact with extraterrestrial intelligence is discussed (Diamond thinks that would be a disaster).

World conquest (part four)

Part four considers conquest. Why is it that the Eurasians came to dominate

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