PATTERNED PLANET: SPECIAL EDITIONS OF GROUNDBREAKING SCIENCE BOOKS Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? In this Pulitzer Prize-winning book Jared Diamond puts the case that geography and biogeography not race moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans Asians Native Americans sub-Saharan Africans and aboriginal Australians. An ambitious synthesis of history biology ecology and linguistics Guns Germs and Steel remains a ground-breaking and humane work of popular science.