Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeIn 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.

“"Artful, informative and delightful." ”

artful, informative and delightful.
a brilliantly written, passionate whirlwind tour through 13,000 years of history.
"Few writers could ever take so complex a subject and render it as palatable and memorable as Professor Diamond."

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