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100 1 $aDiamond, Jared M.
245 10 $aGuns, germs, and steel :$bthe fates of human societies /$cJared Diamond.
260 $aNew York :$bW.W. Norton & Co.,$c1999.
300 $a480 p., [32] p. of plates :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 429-457) and index.
505 00 $tYali's question: The regionally differing courses of history --$tFrom Eden to Cajamarca. Up to the starting line: What happened on all the continents before 11,000 B.C.? --$tNatural experiment of history: How geography molded societies on the Polynesian islands --$tCollision at Cajamarca: Why the Inca emperor Atahuallpa did not capture King Charles I of Spain --$tRise and spread of food production. Farmer power: The roots of guns, germs, and steel --$tHistory's haves and have-nots: Geographic differences in the onset of food production --$tTo farm or not to farm: Causes of the spread of food production --$tHow to make an almond: The unconscious development of ancient crops --$tApples or indians: Why did peoples of some regions fail to domesticate plants? --$tZebras, unhappy marriages, and the Anna Karenina principle: Why were most big wild mammal species never domesticated? --$tSpacious skies and tilted axes: Why did food production spread at different rates on different continents? --$tFrom food to guns, germs, and steel. Lethal gift of livestock: The evolution of germs --$tBlueprints and borrowed letters: The evolution of writing --$tNecessity's mother: The evolution of technology --$tFrom egalitarianism to kleptocracy: The evolution of government and religion --$tAround the world in five chapters. Yali's people: The histories of Australia and New Guinea --$tHow China became Chinese: The history of East Asia --$tSpeedboat to Polynesia: The history of Austronesian expansion --$tHemispheres colliding: The histories of Eurasia and the Americas compared --$tHow Africa became black: The history of Africa --$tFuture of human history as a science.
520 $aWhy did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse? In this groundbreaking book, evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for history's broadest patterns. Here, at last, is a world history that really is a history of all the world's peoples, a unified narrative of human life even more intriguing and important than accounts of dinosaurs and glaciers. A major advance in our understanding of human societies, Guns, Germs, and Steel chronicles the way that the modern world, and its inequalities, came to be. It is a work rich in dramatic revelations that will fascinate readers even as it challenges conventional wisdom.
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