Jared Diamond explains western dominance in the Age of Enlightenment
Guns, Germs and Steel is a seminal book by the ethnographer Jared Diamond. At its core, it is a multi-disciplinary study of why the west has overtaken the world. Jared Diamond starts off with a simple question—one that was posed to him by a Papua New Guinean politician, Yali—”Why is it that you white people … [Read more…]