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Jared Diamond
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by Jared Diamond
In 1972 a New Guinean politician asked Jared Diamond why Europeans had so much cargo and his own people had so little. Guns, Germs, and Steel is the 13,000-year answer: geography handed some continents better crops, better animals, and an east-west axis to spread them along. The Pulitzer winner that started a thirty-year argument.