An oldie but a goodie, not on clipmarks elsewhere (so far as my searches have shown). Written by Jared Diamond two decades back. Before being critical, read the entire article please. If you think the anthropology is somehow flawed, I suggest Anthropik's Thirty Theses ( http://anthropik.com/thirty ), which cover a lot of ground.

Classic article. Great clip, chiggles.

... the world is only 6,000 year old.

I have thought for a while that "the world" is a number of billion years old. Where, besides the bible, is there evidence of a 6,000 year old world?