02674cam a2200565 i 4500 623005930 TxAuBib 000403s1999||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2005284124 96037068 9780393317558 pbk. 0393317552 pbk. (OCoLC)41076605 TxAuBib rda eng eng Diamond, Jared M. Guns, germs, and steel : the fates of human societies / Jared Diamond. Guns, germs, and steel : the fates of human societies. 1st Norton pbk. ed. New York : Norton, 1999. New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 1999. 494 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. 480 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Afterword dated 2003: cf. p. 426. "With a new preface for the paperback edition'--Cover, pg. [4]. Includes bibliographical references (p. 442-471) and index. Includes bibliographical references and index. Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse? Evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for history's broadest patterns. Here is a world history that really is a history of all the world's peoples, a unified narrative of human life even more intriguing and important than accounts of dinosaurs and glaciers. A major advance in our understanding of human societies, this book chronicles the way that the modern world, and its inequalities, came to be. It is a work rich in dramatic revelations that will fascinate even as it challenges conventional wisdom. Social evolution. Civilization History. Ethnology. Human beings Effect of environment on. Culture diffusion. Social evolution. Civilization History. Ethnology. Human beings Effect of environment on. Culture diffusion. Social evolution. fast Civilization. fast Ethnology. fast Human beings fast Effect of environment on. Human beings. fast Culture diffusion. fast History. fast TXHAP