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Throughout history, rates at which civilization developed varied greatly from continent to continent. This variance in development can be seen today in almost any country of the world. Take for example, the comparison of the United States (a world super-power), to any less developed, third-world country. Clearly, no third-world country can compare to the highly developed United States, but why? In the book, Guns, Germs, and Steel, author Jared Diamond attempts to provide explanation as …

…of the world should obviously support the biological side of developmental rates. Yali’s question: “Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own?” considering biology might be a step closer to an answer. Ecology, geography and biology should have all been considered equally important in determining why different groups developed at such different rates over time.