Bibliograph

Guns, germs, and steel, [the fates of human societies], Jared Diamond

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Guns, germs, and steel, [the fates of human societies], Jared Diamond

Language

eng

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not applicable

Literary text for sound recordings

history

Main title

Guns, germs, and steel

Oclc number

48412863

Responsibility statement

Jared Diamond

Sub title

[the fates of human societies]

Summary

The author dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors he feels are responsible for history's broadest patterns

Table Of Contents

Yali's question: The regionally differing courses of history -- Up to the starting line: What happened on all the continents before 11,000 B.C.? -- 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? -- Lethal gift of livestock: The evolution of germs -- Necessity's mother: The evolution of technology -- From egalitarianism to kleptocracy: The evolution of government and religion -- Epilogue

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