Guns, Germs, Steel, and controversy: Diamonds unique look at evolution and history. Through out Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond attempts to explain the dominance of certain ethnicities. The backbone to this book and the questions that Diamond asks and answers, stem from a question asked of him in 1972 by a local politician in New Guinea named Yali. “Our conversation began with a subject then on every New Guinean’s mind – the rapid pace of …showed first 75 words of 2465 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2465 total…superiority from one race to another, especially westerners over anyone else, and in the next line will write how inhabitants from New Guinea are if anything more intelligent than westerners. I want to know, if New Guineans are so much naturally smarter than westerners, why are they still living in poverty stricken jungles with little technology? Diamond never answers that, but he does succeed in making himself look like a hypocrite on a few occasions.