Guns, Germs, Steel, Coal, Slavery, Seaborne Empires, Peninsulas, Mountain Ranges, Rainfall, & Chance: Jared Diamond's "Guns, Germs, & Steel" After Twenty-Five Years

I am strongly positive on “Guns, Germs, & Steel”; David Kedrosky is even more positive; so let me, against þe grain, try to set out what can be said in critique of Diamond þt is not stupid…