Class Notes

Guns, Germs, and Steel

• Jared Dimon
• Professor at U.C.L.A.
• Biologist 
• specialist in human physiology
• Bird watcher
• lead bird expert in Papua New Guinea 
• Divided the world into haves and have nots
• he wanted to know how it got this way
• He was in Papua New Guinea
• people have been living in New Guinea for around 40,000 years
• Yali asked a question to Jared "Why do you white men have so much cargo and we New Guineans have so little.