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" Guns, germs, and steel : "
Jared Diamond
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583017
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b412236
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Diamond, Jared M
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Guns, germs, and steel : : the fates of human societies /\ Jared Diamond
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494, [2] pages, [32] pages of plates :: illustrations, maps ;; 24 cm
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0393317552
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"With a new afterword about the modern world"--Cover
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"2003 Afterword: Guns, germs, and steel today."--p. 426-440
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Includes "Reading group guide"--p. [495-496]
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 442-471) and index
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| Contents
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Yali's question: The regionally differing courses of history -- From Eden to Cajamarca. Up to the starting line: What happened on all the continents before 11,000 B.C.? -- A natural experiment of history: How geography molded societies on Polynesian islands -- Collision at Cajamarca: Why the Inca emperor Atahuallpa did not capture King Charles I of Spain -- The rise and spread of food production. Farmer power: The roots of guns, germs, and steel -- History's haves and have-nots: Geographic differences in the onset of food production -- To farm or not to farm: Causes of the spread of food production -- How to make an almond: The unconscious development of ancient crops -- Apples or indians: Why did peoples of some regions fail to domesticate plants? -- Zebras, unhappy marriages, and the Anna Karenina principle: Why were most big wild mammal species never domesticated? -- Spacious skies and tilted axes: Why did food production spread at different rates on different continents? -- From food to guns, germs, and steel. Lethal gift of livestock: The evolution of germs -- Blueprints and borrowed letters: The evolution of writing -- Necessity's mother: The evolution of technology -- From egalitarianism to kleptocracy: The evolution of government and religion -- Around the world in five chapters. Yali's people: The histories of Australia and New Guinea -- How China became Chinese: The history of East Asia -- Speedboat to Polynesia: The history of Austronesian expansion -- Hemispheres colliding: The histories of Eurasia and the Americas compared -- How Africa became black: The history of Africa -- The future of human history as a science -- The future of human history of a science. 2003 afterword: Guns, germs, and steel today
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Social evolution
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Civilization-- History
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Ethnology
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Human beings-- Effect of environment on
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Culture diffusion
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Civilization-- history
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Ethnology
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303.4
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HM206.D48 2003
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