"ITunes Music Store." . . . . . "Guns, germs, & steel : [the fates of human societies]"@en . "Guns, germs, and steel the fates of human societies"@en . "Guns, germs, and steel" . "Guns, germs, and steel"@en . . "Fates of human societies" . "Fates of human societies"@en . . . "Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians and Africans, instead of the reverse? In this groundbreaking book, evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for shaping the modern world."@en . . "Sound recording"@en . . "History"@en . "History" . . . . . "Audiocassettes"@en . "The author answers the question: Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse? He dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for history's broadest patterns."@en . "Guns, germs, & steel [the fates of human societies]" . "Guns, germs, & steel [the fates of human societies]"@en . . . . . "Guns, germs and steel the fate of human societies"@en . . . "Downloadable audio books"@en . . . "Evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for history's broadest patterns: Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse?"@en . "\"From the viewpoint of an evolutionary biologist, he highlights the broadest movements both literal and conceptual on every continent since the Ice Age, and examines societal advances such as writing, religion, government, and technology. Diamond also dissects racial theories of global history, and the resulting work--Guns, germs, and steel--is a major contribution to our understanding the evolution of human societies\"--Container." . "Guns, germs, and steel"@en . "Guns, germs, & steel"@en . . . . "Guns, germs, and steel [the fates of human societies]"@en . "Guns, germs, and steel [the fates of human societies]" . . . . "Guns, germs and steel [sound recording] : the fates of human societies" . . . "In this groundbreaking work, evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for history's broadest patterns. It is a story that spans 13,000 years of human history, beginning when Stone Age hunter-gathers constituted the entire human population. Guns, Germs, and Steel is a world history that reality is a history of the world's peoples, a unified narrative of human life." . . . . "Audiobooks"@en . . "Audiobooks" . "Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse? In this groundbreaking book, evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for history's broadest patterns." . . . "Is the balance of power in the world, the essentially unequal distribution of wealth and clout that has shaped civilization for centuries, a matter of survival of the fittest, or merely of the luckiest? In Guns, Germs, and Steel, UCLA professor (and author of the best-seller bearing the same title) Jared Diamond makes a compelling case for the latter. Diamond's theory is that the predominance of white Europeans (and Americans of European descent) over other cultures has nothing to do with racial superiority, as many have claimed, but is instead the result of nothing more, or less, than geographical coincidence. His argument, in a nutshell, is that the people who populated the Middle East's \"fertile crescent\" thousands of years ago were the first farmers, blessed with abundant natural resources (native crops such as wheat and barley, domesticable animals like pigs, goats, sheep, and cows). When their descendents migrated to Europe and northern Africa, climates similar to the crescent's, those same assets, which were unavailable in most of the rest of the world, led to the flourishing of advanced civilizations in those places as well. Add to that their ability to control fire, and Europeans eventually developed the guns and steel (swords, trains, etc.) they used to conquer the planet (the devastating diseases they brought with them, like smallpox, were an unplanned \"benefit\" to their subjugation of, for instance, Peru's native Incas). The program uses location footage (from New Guinea, South America, Africa, and elsewhere), interviews, reenactments, maps, and Diamond's own participation to support his thesis."@en . . . . . . "Guns, germs and steel"@en . . .