TY  - BOOK
AU  - Diamond,Jared M.
TI  - Guns, germs, and steel: the fates of human societies 
SN  - 0393317552
U1  - 303.4 
PY  - 1999///]
CY  - New York
PB  - W.W. Norton & Co.
KW  - Social evolution
KW  - Civilization
KW  - History
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - Human beings
KW  - Effect of environment on
KW  - Culture diffusion
N1  - "With a new preface for the paperback edition"--Back cover note; Includes bibliographical references; PROLOGUE; YALI'S QUESTION --; The regionally differing courses of history --; PT. ONE; 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 --; PT. TWO; 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? --; PT. THREE; 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 --; PT. FOUR; 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 --; EPILOGUE; The future of human history as a science
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