Unbelievable as it may now sound, that keyboard layout was designed in 1873 as a feat of anti-engineering. This book, like probably every other typed document you have ever read, was typed with a QWERTY keyboard, named for the left-most six letters in its upper row. “Still another factor is compatibility with vested interests. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies That seems to me the strongest argument for writing this book.” Until we have some convincing, detailed, agreed-upon explanation for the broad pattern of history, most people will continue to suspect that the racist biological explanation is correct after all. 1500 is wrong, but we're not told what the correct explanation is. We're assured that the seemingly transparent biological explanation for the world's inequalities as of A.D. We keep seeing all those glaring, persistent differences in peoples' status. We're told that this too is to be attributed not to any biological shortcomings but to social disadvantages and limited opportunities. We see in our daily lives that some of the conquered peoples continue to form an underclass, centuries after the conquests or slave imports took place. Of course, we're taught that it's not polite to say so in public. “It seems logical to suppose that history's pattern reflects innate differences among people themselves.
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