most part. Many people in review of the book find this to be unacceptable, and some are even angered by it.
             Diamond goes back into history to start the book and explains us the early evolution of man.
             "Their confinement to Africa, along with abundant fossil evidence, indicates that the earliest stages of human evolution were also played out in Africa. Human history, as something separate from the history of animals, began there about 7 million years ago (estimates range from 5 to 9 million years ago). Around that time, a population of African apes broke up into several populations, of which one proceeded to evolve into modern gorillas, a second into the two modern chimps, and the third into humans. The gorilla line apparently split off slightly before the split between the chimp and the human lines."
             These early humans were known as Homo Erectus, and they traveled from Africa to different continents to colonize. This adds validity to his theory that since all human life evolved from the same animal at the same time in the same place, there is absolutely no evidence of any race having inherently larger brains or natural intellect. Still more change was yet to happen to our early race, around half a million years ago is when physical changes took place between Africans and Euroasians. "The population of Europe and western Asia between 130,000 and 40,000 years ago is represented by especially many skeletons, known as neanderthalenis." Following that is what Diamond calls, the great leap forward. A time where in Africa new simple tools were being created among other things. Europe and Asia soon followed this trend. Another sign of human evolution soon followed, as "some 40,000 years ago, into Europe came the Cro-Magnons, with their modern skeletons, superior weapons, and other advanced cultural traits. Within a few thousand years, there were no more Neanderthals." This example of only ...