To start off, why is a disease a “gift”? The author is predicting that food production led to the development of the guns, germs, and also steel that has enabled Eurasians to dominate so many human beings around the world. On of the most essential report of human domestication of farm animals was a transfer of diseases between animals and also humans. Smallpox, flu, the plague, and also many other diseases stem originally from infectious farm animals. According to the author, Jared Diamond: the winners of past wars were not always the armies with the best generals and weapons, but were often merely those bearing the nastiest germs to transmit to their enemies.
