Guns, Germs and Steel

As Jared Diamond, a biologist, was doing research on tropical birds in New Guinea, he spoke with a local politician named Yali. The spoke about the origins of their peoples and about the commodities that Europeans brought to New Guinea such as steel, clothing, various food, etc…Yali then posed the question of why Europeans had so much to bring and that the people of New Guinea and people like them did not. Yali’s …

…more favorable conditions. It is also mentioned that how the dispersal of certain influential individuals could have also contributed to the extreame differences in progress around the world, however, Jared Diamond believes that environmental factors are the main reasons. It is evident that the combination of food production, domesticated plants and animals, metallurgy, weapons, communication, and better political organization have all contributed to the evolution of the modern world and its continued growth and change.