Guns, germs, and steel: The fates of human societies - Jared Diamond

Since 1500, Europeans have, for better & worse, called the tune that the world has danced to.

In Guns, Germs & Steel, Jared Diamond explains the reasons why things worked out that way. It's an elemental question. Diamond is certainly not the 1st to ask it. However, he performs a singular service by relying on scientific fact rather than specious theories of European genetic superiority. Diamond, a UCLA physiologist, suggests that the geography of Eurasia was best suited to farming, the domestication of animals & the free flow of information.

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