Summary Of Guns Germs And Steel

Chapter nine of Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies describes how many of the animals domesticated had certain qualities that made it possible for them to be domesticated. The chapter also goes into why Eurasia became more advanced than the rest of the world. Diamond explains that all of this is possible based on the Anna Karenina principle. The Anna Karenina principle is “happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” This means that for a marriage to work it needs to succeed in many aspects and failure in any of the aspects can kill the marriage even if it has the other parts for happiness. This principle can explain why some animals had been domesticated and others never