Guns, germs, and steel the fates of human societies
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New York :
W.W. Norton & Co.,
1999.
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| 100 | 1 | |a Diamond, Jared M. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Guns, germs, and steel : |b the fates of human societies / |c Jared Diamond. |
| 260 | |a New York : |b W.W. Norton & Co., |c 1999. | ||
| 300 | |a 480 p., [32] p. of plates : |b ill. ; |c 24 cm. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 429-457) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 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 the 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. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Social evolution. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Civilization |x History. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Ethnology. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Human beings |x Effect of environment on. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Culture diffusion. | |
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