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To: carranza2 who wrote (53405)	8/10/2009 2:58:21 PM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 217942

Now that you accept that playing dirty is better for the immune system, we move to the animal jump thing.

To: carranza2 who wrote (53405)	8/10/2009 3:11:06 PM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 217942

Once Eurasians domesticated animals the germs jumped from the animals to man. Imagine that cave full of dogs eating a few bones, cats eating the mice. Kids playing with the little goats and sheep, man milking cows and riding horses and women plucking feahers iof chickens and ducks.... Eurasian man immune system learned how to beat up the strains that were coming from the animals. Same Andeans with Lhamas, North Americans with Buffaloes ans the world over the dometicatioon was going on. Poor Africans did not have he nice animals the Eurasian man had to domesticate and are behind even today. On horse back and with cow's protein they moved fast and garther conequeirng people who had no defense against germs. For the germ of the guys who had domesticated animals wrecked havoc in the people they encountered. The wild animmals, though did not live close to man anywhere. Either they ate man, were useless or competed with man for food. Man went after them and took tusks, leather or simply chased them away as they took their habitat. Thus little chance for the bugs to jump to man. So they lived deep inside the jungle,unperturbed for thousands of years. We dont want any new bug to come out for which we have no past contact. Like Ebola and Lassa fever. Thus destroying the habitat of those nasty buggers is good for man. For it give less chnage of the deadly virus come out and decimate us.

To: carranza2 who wrote (53405)	8/10/2009 3:22:22 PM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217942

Refutes the idea of the Eurasian hegemony is due to any form of Eurasian intellectual, moral, or inherent genetic superiority. Diamond argues that the gaps in power and technology between human societies originate in environmental differences, which are amplified by various positive feedback loops, and that even when cultural or genetic differences have favored Eurasians (for example Chinese centralized government, or improved disease resistance among Eurasians), these advantages were only created due to the influence of geography and are not inherent in the Eurasian genome. Man, it is tough to be the only cultured guy down here! Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies is a 1997 book by Jared Diamond, professor of geography and physiology at UCLA.