His passion has always been the study of birds, and he had went to New Guinean to see the bird life of their island and while studying his work with the birds, he met the people of New Guinean. Diamond was curious about their life and how they were as …show more content…
According to the book, “Guns, Germs, and Steel” written by Jared Diamond, he did this entire research and study because his New Guinean friend Yali asked him why white people had much more cargo than the people of New Guinean had. Diamond was initially there to study the life of birds in the rainforest of New Guinean, but ultimately leaded to this. A simple question that Diamond would not answer for him was so complex. Diamond believed that the New Guineans did not have much less cargo was about race. In his research, he found that geography, the domestication of animals, immunity to germs, food production, and the use of steel were why societies were more successful than others which relates with other unilineal evolutionist, like Augustine of Hippo, E.B. Tylor and L.H. Morgan because they believe that diffusions are one of the explanations for cultural differences and similarities among societies and all these evolutionists believe that societies