[Poison Pill]

The question to me is “why didn’t the Europeans get previously unencountered diseases from the indians? Why was it only one way?”

There is a great book that deals with that question called "Guns, Germs and Steel" by Jared Diamond

[pepsi_junkie]

There is a great book that deals with that question called "Guns, Germs and Steel" by Jared Diamond

I remember that Diamond used to write an interesting monthly column in the long defunct Science Digest magazine back in the 80s. At one point he wrote a column called "The Arrow of Disease" that posed this question. He had no answers and since then it's always stuck with me as a curiosity (hence I recall the name of that column, for example). I imagine he expanded his thinking behind that column into a book. Maybe I'll check it out to see where it led him.

[BlueLancer]

There is a great book that deals with that question called "Guns, Germs and Steel" by Jared Diamond

I agree with you there ... a fantastic book ...

[rey]

Yes. Good book but Diamond is a whack job liberal.