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I thought it was very engaging to read, but there are elements of repetition. The breadth of scholarship us impressive.
There are critiques of the historiography applied by Diamond, (including the Dawn of Everything), but the overall approach of explaining human history primarily through environmental and geographic factors generates brilliant insights, atmo.