Guns, Germs, Steel

Jared Diamond is a professor at UCLA and he is a biologist by training, a specialist in human physiology, but his real passion has always been about the study of birds. He makes regular trips to Papua New Guinea to study birds and is now a leading expert of studying birds on the island. During his stays in New Guinea though he has begun to study the people there. He has learned several of their languages and much of what he knows about birds he has learned from the natives. A man called Nellie asked the doctor “why come you white man have so much cargo and why we New Guineans have so little”. Doctor Diamond has been trying to answer that question for 30 years now. New Guineans are among the most adaptable people in the world they have survived for more than 40,000 years and are still in the Stone Age. The U.S. has only been established for 500 years and we have the most modern technology.