It was really about the roots of inequality – a question as old as human history itself. Greek and Roman ruins, Mayan sculpture Jared Diamond: Why, since ancient times, have some societies ...

Jared Diamond, in his Pulitzer Prize-winning book ... Biogeographic big claims about human history are always impressive and ...

I should mention that Guns, Germs and Steel is eminently readable — he's a terrific writer. I wholeheartedly recommend it for ...

Geographer and polymath Jared Diamond argues that apparently slight differences in geography can have profound consequences for the culture and history of nations. In this talk, recorded in his ...

Martin Sieff, Washington 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 ...