Guns, Germs and Steel

About Jared Diamond:

         Jared Diamond has written several books throughout his lifetime, and currently is a professor of geography at the University of California.  He has also won a Pulitzer Prize due to the book, Guns, Germs, and Steel.  Jared Diamond was born on September 10, 1937 in Boston, Massachusetts.  He now has a wife named Marie; they have two twin sons together.  He went to Harvard and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1958.  Jared also graduated from University of Cambridge in 1961; he achieved a PhD in physiology and biophysics.  He also got a studied in ornithology and ecology, and has visited New Guinea many times.  When Jared was older he also became an expert in environmental history.  Even though Jared Diamond is an expert in a wide variety of subjects he still had a great love for birds, and knows practically all the species that live on the islands of New Guinea.

About Guns, Germs and Steel:

         This book published in 1997 won the Pulitzer prize a year later in 1998.  Diamond shows how certain countries become modern and advanced while others are still living like we humans did tens of thousands of years ago.  Guns, Germs and Steel has sold millions of copies and it explains why Eurasian civilizations have survived whole others have failed.  I do believe the Jared has a valid theory, it may be "out there" but it makes sense and gets people to think.  If I was someone who lived in New Guinea and saw a person like Diamond come in an airplane and such, I would really think that they are some new human specimen.  They are different colors, they have different clothes, and everything is different.  I'm not so sure how well I would adapt but overall, I would be so astonished by the new people.