history essay

Read the two assigned articles for Lecture Module 1 and post your answers to the following questions in your discussion group. At the end of your post, you MUST pose a question for other students to respond to. Your post needs to be at least 300 words. Refrain from writing more than 400 words.

Lecture Module 1 Readings: All these readings are post in file.

Jared Diamond, “The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race,” in Discover Magazine, May 1987. (6 pages) and Jared Diamond, “Zebras, Unhappy Marriages, and the Anna Karenina Principle,” in Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1997).

Questions:

According to Jared Diamond in “The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race,” what was the worst mistake in human history and why?

Jared Diamond begins his chapter on “Zebras, Unhappy Marriages, and the Anna Karenina Principle” with the statement, “Domesticable Animals are all alike; every undomesticable animal is undomesticable in its own way.” What does he mean by this? Give an example.