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Guns, Germs, and Steel - The Fates of Human Societies (Hardcover, Revised)
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Guns, Germs, and Steel - The Fates of Human Societies (Hardcover, Revised)
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs, and Steel is a brilliant
work answering the question of why the peoples of certain
continents succeeded in invading other continents and conquering or
displacing their peoples. This edition includes a new chapter on
Japan and all-new illustrations drawn from the television series.
Until around 11,000 BC, all peoples were still Stone Age
hunter/gatherers. At that point, a great divide occurred in the
rates that human societies evolved. In Eurasia, parts of the
Americas, and Africa, farming became the prevailing mode of
existence when indigenous wild plants and animals were domesticated
by prehistoric planters and herders. As Jared Diamond vividly
reveals, the very people who gained a head start in producing food
would collide with preliterate cultures, shaping the modern world
through conquest, displacement, and genocide.The paths that lead
from scattered centers of food to broad bands of settlement had a
great deal to do with climate and geography. But how did
differences in societies arise? Why weren't native Australians,
Americans, or Africans the ones to colonize Europe? Diamond
dismantles pernicious racial theories tracing societal differences
to biological differences. He assembles convincing evidence linking
germs to domestication of animals, germs that Eurasians then spread
in epidemic proportions in their voyages of discovery. In its
sweep, Guns, Germs and Steel encompasses the rise of agriculture,
technology, writing, government, and religion, providing a unifying
theory of human history as intriguing as the histories of dinosaurs
and glaciers.
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