Guns and steel book5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() In the cities and towns, people interacted closely with each other. Secondly, over the centuries before the discovery of the Americas, Europe consisted of towns and cities (as well as rural environments) with a variety of domesticated animals. ![]() It was antibodies that protected them, not the DNA of the Europeans. This meant they had a genetic disposition to resisting, or recovering from, diseases as well as the actual antibodies that provided immunization. ![]() First, any European who was up and about during the discovery and colonization of the New World had ancestors who’d already survived the Black Plague. For example, in order to get to the answer of the above question he asks, “Why did Native Americans die from European contagions yet Europeans didn’t die from Native American ailments.” Diamond then goes to great length to develop a multi-faceted answer. ![]()
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