Economics and evolutionary biology reading list

"Guns, Germs, and Steel" is excellent. I don't think the synopsis really did it justice.

Diamond supported his thesis very well, while it could have benefited from some environmental feedback information, on the time scales he was examining I think he appropriately examined the economic impacts of the individual environments societies developed in, the "flak" he received is in some cases undeserved.

He meshed his expertise and argument very well, resulting in a great contribution to the understanding of the development of human societies.