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Jared Diamond is professor of physiology at the UCLA School of Medicine and the author of the best-selling and award-winning The Third Chimpanzee and Collapse. He is a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation fellowship and has been awarded a 1999 National Medal of Science. Mr. Diamond has a Ph.D. in physiology and membrane biophysics from the University of Cambridge.

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, by Jared Diamond,was published by W. W. Norton & Company on March 1st, 1997.

In Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond provides a perspective of human history based on anthropology, evolutionary biology, the environment and geography.

The book won a Pulitzer Prize, the Rhone Poulenc Science Book Prize, the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science, and the Aventis Prize for Best Science Book. Guns, Germs and Steel has been translated into 25 languages and has sold millions of copies around the world. In 2005 the National Geographic Society produced a documentary based on the book, which was broadcast on PBS in July 2005.

BOOK OUTLINE

Part 1: Introduction
->Background Information
->Overall Summary
->Important People
->Key Terms
->Major Themes

Part 2: Additional Reading
->Related Online Content
->Interesting Trivia

..And more!

BOOK EXCERPT

From the Overall Summary:

Guns, Germs, and Steel provides a basis for understanding why history turned out the way it did. Specifically, why did Europe end up with more power and resources, with the distinct ability to subjugate other societies?

The answer is that environmental and geographical forces were the major factors, and not any innate biological superiority. Put simply: food production was the key.

Europe (and Eurasia generally) had access to more food sources, and a geography that supported the transfer of knowledge and technology. Specifically, Eurasia had plants and animals that were readily available for domestication, and a long east/west axis that promoted diffusion of food production technology. Other regions did not have such an abundance, and were subject to long north/south axes, which inhibited the ability to grow similar crops across large areas.

Food production allowed societies to expand their population base not only in sheer numbers, but in diversity of work product. Having an abundance of surplus food allowed for the development of non-food production tasks: specialized tool making, writing, metallurgy, ruling classes and professional armies.

In short food production was behind every other major technological leap. And once the agricultural revolution occurred, the balance of power continued to shift to Europe.

...To be continued!

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