Any answer to this question is pure speculation, but I
think that Diamond would only accept the idea of larger, continent-wide differences if
there were only a very few distinct societies on that particular continent. Otherwise,
he would argue that there are too many societies and that they are too different to
generalize about.
As for cultural arguments in general, as
long as the cultures differ in random ways across continents, it is not a problem.
Diamond does not say that cultures don't differ -- he just says that one continent won't
have cultures that are all similar and that all differ from those on another
continent.
If we were to find, though, that all (or the
great majority of) African societies were different in a relevant way to all (or a great
majority of) European societies, then there would be real problems for Diamond's
theories.
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