Jared Diamond

Jared Diamond is an American scientist of Jewish descent. He was born on September 10^th, 1937. This man is obviously a very intelligent man with contributions in over 9 different fields including Physiology, Biophysics and Anthropology. However, despite the fact that this man has several achievements the reason our teacher wants us to “look him up” is because of some research he undertook in 1997. In this research he sought to understand why Euro-Asian communities were more advanced when it came to technologies and power. He thinks (and I agree) that the reason for this gap in “technologies” is because of environmental differences NOT cultural or racial differences.

He has made MANY trips to Papa New Guinea 

Guns,Germs and Steel

This book explains how the Euro-Asia population dominated the world. The book explains why they were so powerful. It dismisses the argument that Europeans are "racially" superior to other races. He proposes the argument that Environment is the primary reason for European dominance. For example European societies have grain that makes their community more favorable to development.

Talks about how some counties are more advanced than others.