In the Pulitzer Prize winning novel Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies‚ author Jared Diamond offers many different scientific‚ as well as historic‚ reasons for why the events of history unfolded the way they did‚ mainly the question of was there anything specific that lead to Europe becoming the dominate power in the world? Like much of history‚ there is no specific causation that led to European dominance over‚ initially‚ the Americas‚ and then later Africa‚ Australia‚ and parts
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Many of the domestic plants that are around today all started out as wild‚ some even started out poisonous. Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond chapter seven is about how through natural and artificial selection the plants‚ that people today know and love‚ came to be. Natural selection is the process that organisms better suited for certain environments survive and produce more offspring’s. Whereas artificial selection is where organisms with desired traits cross-pollinate
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Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel Book Review The book Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel features the work of the author Jared Diamond. In his book‚ he mentions his answer to how different human societies became so diverse. Diamond doesn’t use racist answers‚ he gives an answer based on the geographical location of these diverse societies. He explains many concepts on how the location of a society can make them more diverse and more powerful than other societies. He shares many examples in history to support his thesis
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million years ago. Human ancestors began walking upright around 4 million years ago‚ and they moved to Eurasia around 1 or 2 million years ago. Sometime between 100‚000 and 50‚000 years ago‚ not long after human fossils began to resemble modern homo sapiens‚ the human race had an explosion of new technological and artistic innovations that far surpassed anything previously created‚ also known as the Great Leap Forward. Shortly after‚ between 50‚000 and 35‚000 years ago‚ the human race expanded its
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Book Review Katrina Yurkiw Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies Jared Diamond W. W. Norton and Company April 1st‚ 1999 480 Pages ISBN: 0393317552 Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel is a fascinating perspective taken by Professor of Geography and Physiology at UCLA‚ Jared Diamond. Diamond’s purpose was to explain why Eurasian civilizations have had such immense success conquering people and land other than their own. Diamond’s aim is to answer Yali’s question: Why is that white people
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Diamond’s Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel in the Fall 2003 based on a recommendation from a friend. Many chapters of the book are truly fascinating‚ but I had criticisms of the book back then and hold even more now. Chief among these is the preponderance of analysis devoted to Papua New Guinea‚ as opposed to‚ say‚ an explanation of the greatly disparate levels of wealth and development among Eurasian nations. I will therefore attempt to confine this review on the "meat and potatoes" of his book: the dramatic
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Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel Episode Three: Into the Tropics This episode was actually rather interesting. In general‚ it basically discussed how guns‚ germs‚ and steel have affected and influenced the shaping of African societies as it is today. Diamond’s main quest is to answer the question: why did the world become so unequal? In the mid-1600s the Europeans first arrive at the southernmost tip of South Africa. The southernmost tip of Africa and Europe are almost identical in latitude‚ with
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Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies‚ by Jared Diamond‚ attempts to explain why history progressed differently for people from various geographical regions. Diamond introduces his book by pointing out that history followed different courses for different people because of differences among peoples’ environments‚ not because of biological differences among people themselves. Through his convincing explanation for how civilizations were created and evolved throughout the course of history
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Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel Quineshia Tucker August 19‚ 2011 AP World History 30 Block Jared Diamond was born on September 10‚ 1937 in Boston‚ Massachusetts. He was raised by two highly intelligent people. Mrs. Diamond‚ his mother‚ was a linguist while his father‚ Mr. Diamond was a physician. He grew to love science due to his intellectual upbringing. He was born to a Bessarabian Jewish family. His father attended Harvard University of Medical. Though Jared attended
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Guns‚ Germs and Steel Jared Diamond‚ author of the Pulitzer Prize Winning‚ National Best Selling book Guns‚ Germs and Steel‚ summarizes his book by saying the following: "History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples ’ environments‚ not because of biological differences among peoples themselves." Guns‚ Germs and Steel is historical literature that documents Jared Diamond ’s views on how the world as we know it developed. However‚ is his thesis that
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