TY - BOOK AU - Diamond,Jared M. TI - Guns, Germs and Steel: a short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years SN - 9780099302780 U1 - 909 PY - 1997/// PB - Vintage KW - Civilization KW - Anthropology KW - World History KW - Sociology N2 - 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 ER -