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Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own?
Jared Diamond
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Jared Diamond
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: September 10
Biologist
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Boston
Massachusetts
Jared Mason Diamond
Jared M. Diamond
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