In Chapter 13 of Guns, Germs, and Steel, Diamond discusses how geography lays a role in the evolution of technology. How does he account for the...

In Chapter
13, (on p. 261 in the paperback
edition) Diamond argues that there are three factors that led

straightforwardly to the observed intercontinental differences in the development
of
technology.  Those factors are the time when the continent started having
food production, the
barriers to diffusion, and the human population.  All of
these, in Diamonds mind, are caused by
geography.

Eurasia, Diamond argues, was much better for food production in
ancient times
than the...