Guns, Germs, and Steel
In his last book published in 2000, the anthropologist and geographer James Morris Blaut criticized "Guns, Germs, and Steel", among other reasons, for reviving the theory of environmental determinism, and described Diamond as an example of a modern Eurocentric historian. Blaut criticizes Diamond's loose use of the terms "Eurasia" and "innovative", which he believes misleads the reader into presuming that Western Europe is responsible for technological inventions that arose in the Middle East and Asia.