Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by Jared Diamond
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Author: Jared DiamondEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2005-07-11
ISBN: 0393061310
Number of pages: 512
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
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Book Review: A fascinating history of the world
Summary: 5 Stars
I thought this was a simply amazing book. Diamond's singular talent is to bring knowledge from a disparate array of natural and social sciences into a meaningful, coherent whole. Diamond examines the world and its peoples throught the lenses of linguistics, geography, botany, zoology, sociology, and epidemiology and somehow combines them all to create a theory of human history. This book addresses many fascinating questions most of us have probably never really thought about, but which can explain a lot about history. How come when Europeans, mounted on horseback, colonized Africa, they weren't met by Arficans mounted on Zebras and Rhinos? How come Europeans decimated indegenous Americans with their diseases, instead of vice versa? Diamond marshalls compelling evidence to show that a populations' intitial advantages in terms of readily domesticatible plants and animals, more than anything else, explains the ultimate fates of human societies. In terms of sheer knowledge, I learned more from this book than any I have ever read.
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