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FOR THE TURKISH EDITION PREFACE “This is the brief history of the people of all continents over thirteen thousand years. Everyone and everything is told. By explaining the different developments of different societies on different continents in a convincing and scientific way, it shatters racist attitudes… You will not be able to put it down after reading the first two pages.” Paul R. Ehrlich, Stanford University “Captivating… It lays the foundation for understanding the history of humanity.” Bill Gates “The book of big questions and big answers.” Yuval Noah Harari “An incredibly comprehensive book. Jared Diamond succeeds where many other authors have failed, successfully telling the history of the entire world in six hundred pages. One of the most important and readable books published in recent years about the history of humanity.” Nature “Serious and groundbreaking books on the history of humanity come along only once every generation. Guns, Germs, and Steel is ready to take its place among these classics… Diamond combines his mastery of technology with a broad historical scope. A book this meticulous and comprehensive has not been published in years.” Washington Times “Jared Diamond explains scientific data in a way that everyone can understand and deals with a topic that will attract the interest of anyone wondering how the history of humanity developed… By creating a scientifically based theory in response to racist answers, he has done a great favor to everyone. An incredibly fascinating book.” Los Angeles Times The 13,000-year history of all the people living on Earth… The history of humanity is full of states, wars, discoveries, inventions, and innovations. While empires were founded and destroyed, events occurred that changed the course of history and determined the fates of continents. But how did the history of humanity begin and how was it shaped? Why is the geography of Anatolia and the Middle East so important in the course of history? Why were horses domesticated in Eurasia while zebras could not be domesticated in Africa? Why did the natives of the American continent not invade Europe, but the opposite happened? Why were some societies rich while others remained poor? Guns, Germs, and Steel is a magnificent work that asks the most vital and important questions of the history of humanity and answers them with scientific evidence. Written by drawing on many fields such as biology, geography, linguistics, and history, it is a history book free from “Western” conditioning that points to the future. How religions were born, how states were founded, how microbes and the diseases associated with them arose, the importance of agriculture and animal husbandry in our lives, why writing was invented, how and why humankind developed technology, and what the foundations of the history of humanity are are examined in detail in this book. And the whole story begins with a person living in the Middle East 13,000 years ago planting a grain of wheat in the soil. “Artistic, informative, and entertaining… There is nothing like seeing a window that illuminates previously unthought-of aspects of a subject, and Jared Diamond has done exactly that.” William H. McNeil, New York Review of Books “The scope and explanatory power of this book are incredible.” The New Yorker “ In Guns, Germs, and Steel we can clearly see that no scientist can explain social issues as clearly and easily as Jared Diamond. In this incredibly successful book, Jared Diamond, who combines the sciences of biology and history, explains the human condition more deeply than ever before.” Edward O. Wilson, Harvard University “A breathtaking book that explains how our world, consisting of those who have and those who do not, came to be. A subject that has never before been treated with such great expertise and compassion.” The Times “An extraordinary and convincing book. Its scope is incredible.” Observer “This book turned me from a historian researching medieval wars into a student of the history of humanity.” Yuval Noah Harari “Intriguing and extremely important… To summarize this book would be to do it an injustice.” David Brown “It deserves the interest of anyone curious about the history of humanity at the most basic level. A work at the top. Diamond has written a logical and evidence-based story of the history of humanity.” Thomas M. Disch