This 1998 book won a Pulitzer Prize for its author. Essentially, Diamond presents a world view of history that attempts to explain why there are such huge discrepancies between Eurasian cultures and other aboriginal cultures. For example, he bases his theory on the simple idea that history occurred as it did not because some races or civilizations were superior to others but that they were instead victims of geography. I have to agree with his theory. I do not, however, agree with his timelines - that tens of thousands of years took place throughout the dispersion of humanity around the globe. But then, Diamond is an evolutionary bio9logist, which explains his particular slant on time and progress.