“History has taken different courses for different peoples because of differences between people's environments, not because of biological differences between people themselves.” (Diamond 25) This statement is the thesis for Jared Diamond's book Guns Germs and Steel the Fates of Human Societies. Diamond wrote this book to answer the question of a New Guinea politician, Yali. He asked, “Why did you whites develop so much cargo and bring it to New Guinea, but we blacks had little cargo of our own.” Diamond set out to find the answer to this question, to find out why history unfolded the way it did. Diamond attributes inequalities in history to environmental differences and not biological differences as many people like to say. Most of the advantages Europeans had were a direct result of geography. The main points that Diamond attributes to European dominance are the early domestication of plants and animals, and as a result of close contact with animals, the most deadly germs were transmitted to Europeans. As a result of its East-West axis, the spread of food production, technologies, humans, and ideas spread easily across Europe. The axis means that there were climatic, geographical and disease conditions similar to those of the migrants and that there were no barriers. So anything that could be grown in one area would quickly spread and prosper in nearby locations. Furthermore, political administration, economic exchanges, incentives for exploration and conquest, and the making available of information to every individual were facilitated after the development of writing. Jared Diamond is a geography professor at UCLA. He has a PhD in physiology and has since devoted his time to researching molecular physiology and evolution...... half of the article ......int that he had before coming up with his main idea. One thing I really liked about the book was the beginning of the chapter Zebras and Unhappy Marriages. Diamond begins the chapter with “Pets are all the same; every untameable animal is untameable in its own way.” (Diamond 157) This phrase is based on the famous first sentence of Tolstoy's novel Ana Karenina. I thought this was a clever way to start the passage and capture the reader's attention. However, the problem I had with the book was that it was repetitive. Jared Diamond would reiterate what he had already stated earlier in the book or passage. Overall the book was well organized and well written. Jared Diamond clearly states his thesis more than once in the book. He went into depth on every point he made and did a good job of convincing the reader of his position on the topic.