Jared Diamond is professor of geography at UCLA and author of the best-selling Collapse and The Third Chimpanzee. He is a MacArthur Fellow and was awarded the National Medal of Science.
"Artful, informative, and delightful.... There is nothing like a
radically new angle of vision for bringing out unsuspected
dimensions of a subject, and that is what Jared Diamond has
done."
*William H. McNeil - New York Review of Books*
"An ambitious, highly important book."
*James Shreeve - New York Times Book Review*
"A book of remarkable scope, a history of the world in less than
500 pages which succeeds admirably, where so many others have
failed, in analyzing some of the basic workings of culture
process.... One of the most important and readable works on the
human past published in recent years."
*Colin Renfrew - Nature*
"The scope and the explanatory power of this book are
astounding."
*The New Yorker*
"No scientist brings more experience from the laboratory and field,
none thinks more deeply about social issues or addresses them with
greater clarity, than Jared Diamond as illustrated by Guns, Germs,
and Steel. In this remarkably readable book he shows how history
and biology can enrich one another to produce a deeper
understanding of the human condition."
*Edward O. Wilson, Pellegrino University Professor, Harvard
University*
"Serious, groundbreaking biological studies of human history only
seem to come along once every generation or so. . . . Now [Guns,
Germs, and Steel] must be added to their select number. . . .
Diamond meshes technological mastery with historical sweep,
anecdotal delight with broad conceptual vision, and command of
sources with creative leaps. No finer work of its kind has been
published this year, or for many past."
*Martin Sieff - Washington Times*
"[Diamond] is broadly erudite, writes in a style that pleasantly
expresses scientific concepts in vernacular American English, and
deals almost exclusively in questions that should interest everyone
concerned about how humanity has developed. . . . [He] has done us
all a great favor by supplying a rock-solid alternative to the
racist answer. . . . A wonderfully interesting book."
*Alfred W. Crosby - Los Angeles Times*
"An epochal work. Diamond has written a summary of human history
that can be accounted, for the time being, as Darwinian in its
authority."
*Thomas M. Disch - The New Leader*
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