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DIAMOND: By Blaut, yes. By the vast majority of readers, no. There have been some less extreme reactions from historians. A common reaction by historians to Guns, Germs, and Steel is to claim that the book is about environmental determinism and neglects the role of culture. That's a misunderstanding. The whole book is about culture. It's about how people in different parts of the world ended up in different societies, not because of [innate] differences between them, but because of differences in the ways their cultures responded to the environment.

    As for environmental determinism, it's not the case that the environment determines what's going to happen. The environment places limits on what's possible. In some cases, there are severe limits, in some cases there are fuzzy limits. An example of [a people facing] severe limits on environment is the Eskimos, or Inuit, in the Arctic. Why didn't the Inuit develop agriculture? Yes, that's environmental determinism. There's no way in the Arctic that you can practice agriculture.