“Guns, Germs, and Steel” Reconsidered

Jared Diamond wrote Guns, Germs, and Steel more than 25 years ago to great acclaim. It won the Pulitzer Prize. He brought together anthropology, archeology, history, behavioral ecology, psychology, and other fields into a super history. Like Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens, he packs a lot of explanatory power into a small number of pages. Bill Gates and other influential people lauded the book, even trying to apply its “theory”…