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'The World Until Yesterday': Lessons For The Modern World
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Tue, 01 Jan 2013 13:00:00 -0500
Author Jared Diamond has spent decades studying cultures around the world, and believes the modern world can learn numerous lessons from traditional societies.
In his new book,The World Until Yesterday,Diamond argues that "traditional societies represent thousands of millennia-long natural experiments in human lives."
Diamond, a professor of geography at UCLA, talks with host Neal Conan about the lessons modern society takes for granted.
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