Guns, Germs, and Steel

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…superiority from one race to another, especially westerners over anyone else, and in the next line will write how inhabitants from New Guinea are if anything more intelligent than westerners. I want to know, if New Guineans are so much naturally smarter than westerners, why are they still living in poverty stricken jungles with little technology? Diamond never answers that, but he does succeed in making himself look like a hypocrite on a few occasions.