wwh>...Jared Diamond's statement early in the book that the average New Guinea native was brighter than the average European? It seems to me that he was comparing New Guinea elite with average Europeans.
Bill - I haven't read the book to which you refer, but it sounds like you are suggesting that Europeans & other Westerners are 'obviously' more intelligent and advanced than those from the East - for instance, many Westerners actually believe that so much of the good things of life were created by the West!
In fact, the LIBRARY, for example, first existed in Ancient Egypt, and the Mesopotamians had a culture far grander and 'higher' than any of those that developed so very much later in Europe! Of course, WRITING began with cuneiform in Mesopotamia (and perhaps at the same time as hieroglyphics in Egypt and further east with the same idea in China) long before it existed in Greece/Rome and the 'West'!
As a doctor, what's your opinion of the Chinese (and other Eastern) forms of healing?
Shoshannah
