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Guns, Germs and Steel a short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: Vintage 1997Edition: 20th Anniversary Edition 2017Description: 580 p photographs and illustrations 20/13/3,8 cm PaperbackISBN:
  • 9780099302780
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 909
Summary: 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.
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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.

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