Guns, Germs, and Steel

1997 book by Jared Diamond

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (subtitled A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years in Britain) is a 1997 transdisciplinary nonfiction book by the American author Jared Diamond. The book attempts to explain why Eurasian and North African civilizations have survived and conquered others, while arguing against the idea that Eurasian hegemony is due to any form of Eurasian intellectual, moral, or inherent genetic superiority. It received widespread recognition in the popular science market for its interdisciplinarity, combining insights from biology, geography, anthropology, and history.

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