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• Jared Diamond
• have and have not
• Papua New Guinea
• professor at UCLA
• biologist
• expert in human physiology
• bird watcher
• people have been living there for 40,000 years
• Yali
• why do you white men have so much cargo, and we black men have so little
• cargo: material goods
• the cargo was seen as white man's power
• power is determined by race
• were made to carry whites across the river
• advance technology, large population, well-organized workforce
• prehistoric: before things were written down
• 13,000 years ago, middle east, hunter gathers
• the last place with hunter gathers is Papua New Guinea