Jared Diamond

Jared Diamond was born on September 10th, 1937. He had written a lot of popular science books, one of which called the Third Chimpanzee. He is an American scientist but is known for his writing more. He has 3 total books. He works at the University of California as a professor for Geography.  He is from Massachusetts but he was born into a Jewish family where he learned much about this religion. His first book went into the specifics of human evolution and how it is related to the modern world today and how we are formed. He has a lot of field experience as he traveled to New Guinea for 22 different expeditions. Also he took part of field projects that were for the Indonesian Government for wildlife fund over there. Guns, Germs, and Steel is his most important book. Speaks some of the languages of the tribes that live over there so he can converse with them when he goes over there. He is an american Anthropologist and Sociologist. Jared studies a lot of birds and their evolution and ecology in the world today. He received a publishing award, the Genius award, and many others including best selling author.

Guns germs and steel is a movie as well as a book. This book exposes the forces that played a part in shaping human history over the past 10,000 years. He compares the differences to the world back then to the world today. This book was written in 1997. He tries to argue gaps between the power and technology of people causes environmental differences. Since we started out at hunters and gatherers, he tells that we then switched into an agricultural type of society over a certain amount of time. Eurasia's agricultural advancements arose faster then any other places due to the fact that they have a greater availability of plants and animals. Sub Saharan people mostly relied on wild animals because they had a small amount of area where plants and animals even had a chance to survive. Book title means farm based society conquered other areas. Military superiority refers to how Christopher Columbus was able to take down the people who were already there. They were more technological advanced so they got a advantage and got mostly all they wanted to get. WESTWARD EXPANSION. The first part discussed how some civilizations have advanced and progressed and become more dominant and some haven't.