It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans in return for the many — Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans in return for the many — Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans in return for the many — Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans in return for the many — Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans in return for the many — Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans in return for the many — Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans in return for the many — Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans in return for the many — Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans in return for the many — Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans in return for the many — Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans in return for the many — Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans in return for the many — Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans in return for the many — Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans in return for the many — Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans in return for the many — Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans in return for the many — Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans in return for the many — Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans in return for the many — Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans in return for the many — Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans in return for the many — Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans in return for the many — Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans in return for the many — Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans in return for the many — Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans in return for the many — Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans in return for the many — Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans in return for the many — Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans in return for the many — Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans in return for the many — Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans in return for the many — Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans in return for the many — Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians received from the Old World.

— Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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