Science Weekly podcast: Jared Diamond on traditionals societies

This week Alok Jha meets the Pulitzer prizewinning author Jared Diamond to discuss his new book The World Until Yesterday. Diamond explains how his early passion for ornithology led him to New Guinea and a life-long passion for studying traditional hunter-gatherer societies.He also addresses the accusation by Survival International that he is "completely wrong, both factually and morally" to say that traditional societies are more violent than state-run societies. Observer science editor Robin […]