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By Samina aamir.

The role of choice isn't nearly as big in Guns, Germs, and Steel. In order to become a farmer, you've got to develop the plants and animals for domestication. If you're like the Inuit, there's no way you can become a farmer. Also, in Guns, Germs and Steel, I was concerned with whole continents rather than small-scale societies.

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KAITLYN GOALEN: You seem to have gotten criticism because you use a lot of examples from islands. How do you justify using islands as examples for the larger picture? 17

DIAMOND: Good question. Some of the reviews have criticized me for using examples from islands or from 'marginal societies.' Easter Island. The Anasazi. My response to that is that I do also take examples from populous societies in the middle of continents. For example, the Maya. The Maya were the most advanced society in the Western Hemisphere before Columbus. My examples from the modern world—except Haiti and the Dominican Republic—are all on continents: China, the world's most populous country; Montana, in the world's richest country; Rwanda in Africa. So that's one response.