Guns,_Germs_And_Steel

Guns, Germs And Steel Guns, Germs, And Steel In Guns, Germs, And Steel, author Jared Diamond uses environmental and geographical determinism to explain why some of the world's people have advanced so much more than the rest of the world's peoples. His basic thesis is that environmental differences, not biological differences, led to the sometimes extreme differences in the world's societies. I am going to argue that Guns, Germs, And Steel is a comparative history, and that Diamond successfully argued his thesis. There are four main themes, or differences, that Diamond discusses in Guns, Germs, And Steel: differences in plant and animal species available for domestication, rates of diffusion and migration within continents, rates of diffusion and migration between continents, and the different demographics of the continents. Diamond argues that it is these four important differences that led to the superiority of mainly the European culture over the rest of the world, but he does not lay this out until the epilogue of the book. It is much more subtle in the chapters that these are the major points that he is iterating. He begins by discussing the anatomy and migration patterns of the earliest humans on earth, and diamond, production, food, societies, history, world, time, differences, theory, dominant, diffusion, because, areas, maps, european, culture, thesis, steel, provides, migration, guns, germs, discusses, been, basically, author, across, today, points, out, new, much, factors, explain, evidence