Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
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Short Description for Guns, Germs and Steel A study of the rise of civilization that argues that human development is not based on race or ethnic differences but rather is linked to biological diversity, discussing the evolution of agriculture, technology, writing, political systems, and religious belief.
Full description- Publisher: WW Norton & Co
- Published: 17 April 1999
- Format: Paperback 480 pages
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- Categories: Sociology & Anthropology | Anthropology | Evolution | Human Geography | General & World History | Classical History / Classical Civilisation
- ISBN 13: 9780393317558 ISBN 10: 0393317552
- Sales rank: 1,891
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Full description for Guns, Germs and Steel
In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that had had a head start in food production advanced beyond the hunter-gatherer stage, and then developed religion --as well as nasty germs and potent weapons of war --and adventured on sea and land to conquer and decimate preliterate cultures. A major advance in our understanding of human societies, Guns, Germs, and Steel chronicles the way that the modern world came to be and stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science, the Rhone-Poulenc Prize, and the Commonwealth club of California's Gold Medal.
