The Third Culture Home About Edge Features Edge Editions Press The Reality Club Third Culture Digerati Edge Search Jared Diamond I've set myself the modest task of trying to explain the broad pattern of human history, on all the continents, for the last 13, 000 years. Why did history take such different evolutionary courses for peoples of different continents This problem has fascinated me for a ...

Squaring the Circle Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, W. W.Norton, 1997, $27.50, 480 pp. An ingenious attempt to explain racial differences in achievement. reviewed by Michael Levin The gaps in achievement among world cultures are an obvious problem for racial egalitarians. If no group is more talented than any other, why did Eurasians rather than Africans ...

Teaching Created 5/28/1998 Brad DeLong's Home Page Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. New York: W. W. Norton, 1997. 480 pp. $27.50 (cloth), ISBN: 0-393-31755-2. Reviewed for EH.NET by Joel Mokyr, Departments of Economics and History, Northwestern University. j-mokyr@nwu.edu Jared Diamond is a physiologist and evolutionary biologist with a passion for ...