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Guns, germs, and steel the fates of human societies

While this book is ... about history and prehistory, its subject is not of just academic interest but also of ... practical and political importance. The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics, and genocide. These collisions created reverberations that have still not died down after many centuries, and that are actively continuing in some of the world's most troubled areas today. -Prologue.

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  • "While this book is ... about history and prehistory, its subject is not of just academic interest but also of ... practical and political importance. The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics, and genocide. These collisions created reverberations that have still not died down after many centuries, and that are actively continuing in some of the world's most troubled areas today. -Prologue."@en
  • "Evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond dismantles biological theories of human history while revealing the environmental factors that were actually responsible for history's broadest patterns."@en
  • "Jared Diamond, Professor of Physiology at the UCLA School of Medicine, goes beyond weapons, war tactics, and politics to show how biological and environmental factors changed and shaped thousands of years of history."
  • "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-gatherers constituted the entire human population. Guns, germs, and steel is a world history that really is a history of all the world's peoples, a unified narrative of human life."@en
  • "Traces the development of primitive societies showing why some groups advanced more rapidly than others and how this progression explains why various populations stabilize at specific phases of development."@en

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  • "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies"@en
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