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_a303.4 _bDiamond 2017 |
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_aDiamond, Jared M. _96082 |
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_aGuns, germs, and steel : _bthe fates of human societies / _cJared Diamond. |
250 | _a20th Anniversary edition. | ||
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_aNew York : _bNorton, _c[2017] |
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_a494 pages : _billustrations, maps ; _c24 cm. |
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_atext _btxt _2rdacontent. |
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_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia. |
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_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier. |
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505 | 0 | _aYali'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 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. 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 -- Who are the Japanese? 2003 afterword: Guns, germs, and steel today. | |
520 | _aThe author dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors he feels are responsible for history's broadest patterns. | ||
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_aSocial evolution. _96083 |
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_aCivilization _xHistory. _96084 |
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_aEthnology. _96085 |
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_aHuman beings _xEffect of environment on. _96086 |
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_aCulture diffusion. _96087 |
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_aNonfiction. _2local. _96088 |
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