Guns Germs And Steel Book Report

Jared diamond’s book “Guns, Germs, and Steel” is mainly to answer his indigenous New Guinean politician friend’s question, the Yali’s question and the questions about inequality that comes after Yali’s question. A big part of the question revolves around why is it that Europeans ended up conquering so much of the world in terms of guns, population-destroying germs, steel, and food-producing capability as compared to other continents? Regardless of all the conflicting evidence from anthropology and biology, the majority agrees that the causes of differences in places and inequality is due to biological and racial difference, that the Europeans are better and more superior naturally. But this is not the case for Jared Diamond, he sees that the underlying causes of inequality as an environmental issue, mainly on ecological difference between continents. He puts together supporting evidence from many fields and constructing conclusions and insights. As stated in page 25 of (Jared Diamond, Gun,Germs, and Steel : The fates of Human …show more content…
The book answers plenty of questions in history and the major question “Yali’s Question” using solid evidence bought from various fields. It is important to answer “Yali’s Question” as it matters to a big part of people in the world because it brings the closest possible explanation to why inequality started in our world. By proving that improvement in technology is mainly due to geographical factors, it can be said that every human being on earth has equal intelligence quotient (IQ), this promotes equality among humanity. It can be concluded that history’s broad pattern has no relation to human racial characteristics and is solely due to continental differences. This is valuable to people as it helps reduce the idea of racism and discrimination and encourage ethical behaviors in our