To explain the past 13,000 years of human history, Jared Diamond has proposed a provocative thesis which dispels racially-based theories and emphasizes the unequal distribution of domesticable animals and climatic barriers to the dissemination of early agriculture and technological developments which advantaged certain peoples. Jared Diamond is the author of Guns, Germs and Steel: Fates of Human Society, 1998 Pulitzer Prize Winner for general non fiction, a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a recipient of the President's National Medal of Science.

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