Guns, Germs, and Steel Lesson Plan

What is Jared Diamond's objective in writing Guns, Germs, and Steel? Was there a particular event that acted as the catalyst for the project? How can we apply what we know so far of Diamond's thesis to this very question? What factors allowed Diamond to meet someone like Yali in the first place? What personal observations caused Diamond to be dissatisfied with the conventional answers to this question?

Guns, Germs and Steel attempts to investigate the ultimate reasons why societies developed as they did, specifically why certain groups of humans developed superior technology and organization and overtook other groups rather than the other way around. The book sprang out...