TY  - GEN
AU  - Diamond,Jared M.
TI  - Guns, germs, and steel: the fates of human societies 
SN  - 0393317552 (pbk.)
AV  - HM856 .D5319 1999
PY  - 1999///
CY  - New York
PB  - W.W. Norton & Co.
KW  - Culture diffusion
KW  - Human beings
KW  - Effect of environment on
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - Etnoloji
KW  - Civilization
KW  - History
KW  - Uygarlık
KW  - Tarih
KW  - etuturkob
KW  - Sosyal evrim
KW  - Social evolution
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 429-457) and index; Yali's question: The regionally differing courses of history -- From Eden to Cajamarca. Up to the starting line: What happened on all the continents before 11,000 B.C.? -- A natural experiment of history: How geography molded societies on the Polynesian islands -- Collision at Cajamarca: Why the Inca emperor Atahuallpa did not capture King Charles I of Spain -- The rise and spread of food production. Farmer power: The roots of guns, germs, and steel -- History's haves and have-nots: Geographic differences in the onset of food production -- To farm or not to farm: Causes of the spread of food production -- How to make an almond: The unconscious development of ancient crops -- Apples or indians: Why did peoples of some regions fail to domesticate plants? -- Zebras, unhappy marriages, and the Anna Karenina principle: Why were most big wild mammal species never domesticated? -- Spacious skies and tilted axes: Why did food production spread at different rates on different continents? -- From food to guns, germs, and steel. Lethal gift of livestock: The evolution of germs -- Blueprints and borrowed letters: The evolution of writing -- Necessity's mother: The evolution of technology -- From egalitarianism to kleptocracy: The evolution of government and religion -- Around the world in five chapters. Yali's people: The histories of Australia and New Guinea -- How China became Chinese: The history of East Asia -- Speedboat to Polynesia: The history of Austronesian expansion -- Hemispheres colliding: The histories of Eurasia and the Americas compared -- How Africa became black: The history of Africa -- The future of human history as a science
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