Battle of Locust Grove

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Effects on society section

The effects of domestication on society section reads a bit weird and propagandistic to me? I also was under the impression that Guns Germs and Steel was not a good source for sociological information at large. The article on the book includes sources specifically criticizing the section of his book we are citing here.

the next section on diversity was also weird, not really talking about domestication specifically very much at all, though I think I've added some useful info & removed much of the most bad parts of the text. Perhaps One Editor (talk) 00:47, 13 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks; the diversity subsection still reads like student assignment accretion, and is way too long for this context, so I'll cut it down a bit. A section which factually describes multiple opposing viewpoints doesn't fit easily into any known definition of propaganda. Diamond is a reliably published source, but given that later editions indeed retract the claims (and domestication certainly doesn't equate to agriculture), we can lose his bit now, and lead in to say these are diverse views. I'll tweak the section heading, too. Chiswick Chap (talk) 09:13, 13 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]