Diamond, Jared M. <br/><br/>
Guns, germs, and steel :  the fates of human societies / 
Jared Diamond. 
 - Paperback edition. 
 - 480 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates :  illustrations, maps ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/> "With a new preface for the paperback edition"--Back cover note. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/> 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 --  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.  PROLOGUE :  PT. ONE :  PT. TWO :  PT. THREE :  PT. FOUR  EPILOGUE : 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0393317552 9780393317558 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Social evolution.<br/>Civilization--History.<br/>Ethnology.<br/>Human beings--Effect of environment on<br/>Culture diffusion
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>303.4