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Jared Diamond: Guns, Germs, and Steel (Hardcover, 1997, W.W. Norton & Co.) 4 stars

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (previously titled Guns, Germs and Steel: …

A Fair Shake to Those Who Got the Short Stick

5 stars

If The Dawn of Everything was about humans as a political animal, this book is all about humans as a resourceful species. We all try our hardest, but some of us had better starting conditions than others. This book offers a great way of understanding why history unfolded the way it did.