Jared Diamond; Guns, Germs, and Steel

Jared Diamond is a scientist and author. Currently, he is a professor at the University of California in Los Angeles. He won a Pulitzer award for writing Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts and went to college at Cambridge. Then, He went back to Harvard. His field experience led him to twenty two expeditions to New Guinea and many other countries neighboring Papua New Guinea. He went so he could study ecology and the evolution of birds. Also, he studies the rediscovery of Papua New Guinea. In addition, he also has many discoveries that are used today at colleges. He has a PhD in Philosophy and Geography. He wrote the book Guns, Germs and Steel.

Guns, Germs and Steel is a book that was written by Jared Diamond. It was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction and was a  multimillion seller. In this book, he puts forth an argument on the environmental differences in Papa New Guinea. This book was written in 1977. This book faces many arguments. For example it tries to explain the situation of why Eurasian civilization has survived and continued on to conquer other countries as well.