Guns, Germs and SteelBy Jared DiamondIn the book Guns, Germs and Steel Jared Diamond, a biophysical scientist and psychologist, embarks on a journey to discover the reason behind the great achievements and conquest of Europeans. What is the secret of the Europeans' success? His hypothesis was very original and at first it seemed very simple, it was about guns, germs and steel. Diamond's journey spanned more than 30 years and helped him answer the major questions of human history and what separates humans today from "haves and have-nots" and "haves and have-nots." To do this he had to go back in time, when everyone was equal. His search began in New Guinea when Yali, a New Guinean politician, asked him a question: "why do you white man have so much cargo and we New Guineans have so little?" The cargo in this case was a material good. This question astounded him and pushed him to search for the answer. In the past it was believed that white people had greater superiority because of their race and that race was the reason they had more power. Jared Diamond did not believe these explanations of history. In New Guinea, which still lives today as a very poor society and still has some rituals and customs that have not changed for over 10,000 years, Diamond's main observation was that the food source was very different. While Europeans had wheat and barley that were very nutritious, the people of New Guinea had few large trees that were a source of food. For the citizens of New Guinea, gathering food was extremely time-consuming and energy-consuming, but it produced food that lacked nutrition. Another important difference that Diamond was able to observe was the geographical difference in which they were located. The difference with... half the paper... in the world. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in learning about the history of human civilization, the geography of the earth, different climate regions, anthropology students, and biology students. I think this book does not contain much biological information about the human body, it was more geography and history oriented but it touches on important biological issues such as natural selection, bacteria, germ resistance and diversity. As we know, biology is the study of how organisms came into being and how they live in their natural environment. Guns, germs and steel have played and still play an important role in the organisms and natural environment we know today. Diamond said that no matter what questions and theories he might try to answer in the future, they won't be as important as guns, germs and steel..