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Jared Diamond: A Genius or A Nut Case? My Review of Guns, Germs, and Steel It was the prehistory of the world that drew attention to Diamond’s brain that gave him the wonderful thought of writing a 480 page book about how our world is today, with the differences of culture, cargo, religions, skin color, etc. One simple question his friend Yali asked, “Why is it that you white people develop so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own?” (14), and he went racing off the idea of all the possible answers in the entire world. His purpose of writing this book was to explain how “…History followed different courses for different people because of differences among people environment, not because of biological differences among people themselves…” (25) And then he goes on about all his details of domestic animals and food production over and over again. Well, my perspective of what his purpose of the book was to bore us to death. His perspective of the world shows of nothing but facts, facts, facts! But even though I say the book would do some good if it were never written (or at least write it a bit shorter), there were some good things that caught my eyes. My friend