Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fate of Human Societies is a Pulitzer Prize-winning book. This is a 1997 book written by author Jared Diamond who teaches geography and physiology at UCLA. The same year it won the Pulitzer Prize, the book won the Aventis Prize for Best Science Book. Guns, Germs and Steel attempts to tell us how human history has been shaped and offers insight into humanity's foundations and success. Geography plays a crucial role in determining success. Jared Diamond revolved his book around a question posed by a New Guinean politician named Yali. Jared Diamond begins with the question of Yali, who is a New Guinean politician. His question was, "Why did you white people develop so many goods and bring them to New Guinea, when we black people had our own little cargo?" » His question can be reformulated as follows: “why has human development occurred at such different rates depending on the continent? Jared Diamond continues throughout the book discussing possible reasons for Yali's question. This book gives an account of everything that concerns everyone over the past 13,000 years, including specific events in Eurasian civilization. In the first part of the book, Jared Diamond talks about human evolution and how it spreads across cultures. Throughout 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 the first steps toward technological progress. 50,000 years ago we were making stone tools and cave paintings. Jared Diamond provides insight into why some civilizations made their Great Leap Forward first. Geography is of utmost importance when analyzing...... middle of article ......d 281). It's strange, but people, myself included, don't necessarily think about the complexities of technology until someone tells you. I wouldn't have really thought of it that way without Guns, Germs and Steel. In conclusion, due to geographical differences according to the ecology of different continents, societies developed differently on different continents. This refutes 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 reality in populations capable of producing surpluses through the domestication of plants and animals. Will humans continue to be ignorant based on inconclusive speculation about racial profiling of unfortunate continents that happen to be predominantly black ??