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Congratulations for discovering one of the principle tenets of Guns, Germs & Steel. That said, Diamond draws the link between resources and progress, with population growth being positively correlated with resource growth and unrelated to progress. Jared Diamond is definitely a populist. "Serious" anthropologists love to throw shit at him. Still, it's the populist book on the subject, so you probably oughtta read it.