Explaining what William McNeill called The Rise of the West has become the
central problem in the study of global history. In Guns, Germs, and Steel
Jared Diamond presents the biologist's answer: geography, demography, and
ecological happenstance. Diamond evenhandedly reviews human history on
every continent since the Ice Age at a rate that emphasizes only the
broadest movements of peoples and ideas. Yet his survey is binocular:
one eye has the rather distant vision of the evolutionary biologist, while
the other eye--and his heart--belongs to the people of New Guinea, where
he has done field work for more than 30 years.

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