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The world until yesterday what can we learn from traditional societies?

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Diamond reveals how tribal societies offer an extraordinary window into how our ancestors lived for millions of years -- until virtually yesterday, in evolutionary terms -- and provide unique, often overlooked insights into human nature.

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Main Author: Diamond, Jared M.
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Viking, c2012.
Subjects:
Dani (New Guinean people) > History.
Dani (New Guinean people) > Social life and customs.
Dani (New Guinean people) > Cultural assimilation.
Social evolution.
Social change > Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea > Social life and customs.
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Summary:Diamond reveals how tribal societies offer an extraordinary window into how our ancestors lived for millions of years -- until virtually yesterday, in evolutionary terms -- and provide unique, often overlooked insights into human nature.
Physical Description:xi, 499 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (p. 471-481) and index.
ISBN:9780670024810
0670024813
9780670785896 (export ed.)
067078589X (export ed.)
Author Notes:JARED DIAMOND is a professor of geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. Among his many awards are the US National Medal of Science, the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, the Wolf Prize for Agriculture, a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, the Rockefeller University's Lewis Thomas Prize honoring the Scientist as Poet, and election to the US National Academy of Sciences. He has published over 200 articles in Discover, Natural History, Nature, and Geo magazines, plus 400 articles in technical scientific journals. Diamond is the author of the international bestselling books Guns, Germs, and Steel (which has sold over seven million copies), Collapse, The Third Chimpanzee, The World Until Yesterday, and Upheaval. The many prizes that these books have won include the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-fiction, Britain's Science Book Prize (twice), Japan's Cosmos Prize, the California Book Award (twice), the Phi Beta Kappa Science Book Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Germany's Science Book of the Year, Japan's Asahi Shimbun Award for best book of the past decade, France's Lire Prize for best science book published in France, and book prizes of Italy, Sweden, and Switzerland.

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