TY - ADVS AU - Diamond,Jared M. AU - Lambert,Tim AU - Harrison,Cassian AU - Coyote,Peter AU - Diamond,Jared M. ED - Lion Television Ltd. ED - National Geographic Television & Film. ED - National Geographic Society (U.S.) TI - Guns, germs, and steel SN - 0792292553 U1 - 303.4 22 PY - 2005///] CY - [United States] PB - National Geographic KW - Social evolution KW - Civilization KW - History KW - Ethnology KW - Human beings KW - Effect of environment on KW - Ecology KW - Effect of human beings on KW - Culture diffusion KW - Documentary television programs KW - Video recordings for the hearing impaired N1 - Videodisc release of a 2004 television program; Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book; Special features: Interactive maps; timelines; photo gallery; Disc. 1. episode 1. Out of Eden / produced & directed by Tim Lambert ; ep. 2. Conquest / produced & directed by Tim Lambert -- Disc 2. ep. 3. Into the tropics / director, Cassian Harrison ; special features; Editor, James Gold, Simon Greenwood ; cinematography, Pieter de Vries, Steve Gray ; music, Moving Image Music ; narrator, Peter Coyote; Host and consultant, Jared Diamond; MPAA rating: Not rated N2 - An epic detective story that offers a gripping expose on why the world is so unequal. Professor Jared Diamond traveled the globe for over 30 years trying to answer this question. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book. Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse? Diamond dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for history's broadest patterns ER -