Working with so many workers that play such a crucial role in the development of our nation, and the movement and delivery of products to businesses and consumers, we understand the value of keeping workers healthy and safe. In Jared Diamond’s “Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies” written in 1997,  the author describes the explain why Eurasian civilizations (including North Africa) have survived and conquered others, while arguing against the idea that Eurasianhegemony is due to any form of Eurasian intellectual, moral, or inherent genetic superiority. Diamond argues that the gaps in power and technology between human societies originate in environmental differences, which are amplified by various positive feedback loops. When cultural or genetic differences have favored Eurasians (for example, written language or the development among Eurasians of resistance to endemic diseases), he asserts that these advantages occurred because of the influence of geography on societies and cultures (for example, by facilitating commerce and trade between different cultures) and were not inherent in the Eurasian genomes.

 

About the Author Jared Diamond

Jared Diamond is professor of geography and physiology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). In 1998, it won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction and the Aventis Prize for Best Science Book. A documentary based on the book, and produced by the National Geographic Society, was broadcast on PBS in July 2005.

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