He effectively debunks the idea of innate superiority, pointing instead to the respective environments as the answer for the disparity.Īnd I cannot, for the world of me, imagine why Harari would have even bothered with his book when Guns, Germs and Steel continues to exist. An explanation that isn’t just coherent, but also well researched and properly backed with evidence.ĭiamond looks at the signs left behind our world today by history and makes some excellent assertions about why some nations and races prospered and became colonizers, whereas others became the colonized. That is exactly what Guns, Germs and Steel gives us. Instead of actually confronting those questions, it always ended on a note of ‘well, we cannot yet know because we do not yet have a coherent explanation.’Īnd yet. Sapiens went out of its way to be edgy and made several problematic assertions including the possibility of biological/ innate differences between races// the Global South vs. Humans diverged from the apes around seven million years ago.13 000 years since the end of the last Ice Age. Guns, Germs, and Steel Quotes Showing 1-30 of 422.
Guns, Germs and Steel predates Sapiens and yet is SO DETAILED, SO WELL RESEARCHED, and most importantly SO HUMAN. 'Guns, Germs and Steel' History before the emergence of writing around 3000BC receives brief treatment, although it constitutes 99.9 of the five million year history of the human species. I started reading this book because all the reviews of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind that were trashing it were praising this one.Īnd… I totally understand why. Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the. Cover Art for Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
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