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

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Diamond, Jared M, 1937- [aut]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: Vintage 1997Edition: 20th Anniversary Edition 2017Description: 580 p photographs and illustrations 20/13/3,8 cm PaperbackISBN:

9780099302780

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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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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
Books	GESM Library Main Library	English Fiction Adolescent-Adult	ENA 909 DIA	Checked out	New	09/02/2026	E2500440

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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