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Summary: Lethal Gift Of Livestock
Lethal Gift of Livestock This is the brief summary about chapter eleven of Diamond’s book which its name if Guns, Germs, and Steel. This chapter talk about diseases that they transform from animals to human body. Before I started with my summary, I want to say that I personally agree with Diamond’s speech because he support his argument by showing many strong evidence. From the beginning, germs are the major things that make living things sick, such as human, animals, and plants. There are many infectious diseases that evolved between animals, and they transform to human from them, such as malaria, cholera, plague, and many others. Microbes are living things, and they spared faster than any other living things. Moreover, the suitable environments

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