Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fate of Human Societies is a Pulitzer Prize-winning book. It is a 1997 book written by author Jared Diamond who teaches geography and physiology at UCLA. In about the same year it won the Pulitzer Prize, the book won the Aventis Prize for best science book. Guns, Germs and Steel seeks to explain to us how human history has been shaped and offers insight into the foundations and success of humanity. Geography plays a crucial role in determining success. Jared Diamond revolved his book around a question posed by a New Guinea politician named Yali. Jared Diamond begins with the question of Yali, who is a politician from New Guinea. His question was, "Why did you whites develop so much cargo and bring it to New Guinea, but we blacks had little cargo of our own?" Your question can be reformulated this way: “why has human development proceeded at such different rates on different continents?” Jared Diamond proceeds through the entire book discussing possible reasons for Yali's question. This book tells everything about the entire last 13,000 years, including events specific to the Eurasian civilization as well. In the first part of the book, Jared Diamond talks about human evolution and how it spread from one culture to another. In this book, he discusses the causes of the domination of different continents, civilizations and empires over others. The Great Leap Forward occurs when people take their first steps towards technological progress. 50,000 years ago, that's when we made stone tools and cave paintings. Jared Diamond provides insight into why some civilizations took their Great Leap Forward first. Geography is of utmost importance when analyzing...... middle of paper ......d 281). It's strange, but people, myself included, don't necessarily think about the complexity of technologies until someone tells you. I wouldn't have really thought about it this way if it weren't for Guns, Germs, and Steel. In conclusion, due to geographical differences in the ecology of different continents, societies have developed differently on different continents. This disproves all theories and accusations based on racial speculation. Human biology has nothing to do with the development of societies. Political systems organized by advanced technology and complex societies could only become real in populations of people capable of producing surpluses through the domestication of plants and animals. Humans will continue to be ignorant based on inconclusive speculation regarding the racial profiling of unfortunate continents who happen to be primarily black??