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Guns, Germs and Steel

Jared Diamond, Ph.D. (UCLA)

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond, Ph.D. (UCLA)

Guns, Germs and Steel examines the rise of civilization and the issues its development has raised throughout history.

Having done field work in New Guinea for more than 30 years, Jared Diamond presents the geographical and ecological factors that have shaped the modern world. From the viewpoint of an evolutionary biologist, he highlights the broadest movements both literal and conceptual on every continent since the Ice Age, and examines societal advances such as writing, religion, government, and technology. Diamond also dissects racial theories of global history, and the resulting work—Guns, Germs and Steel—is a major contribution to our understanding the evolution of human societies.

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“ The resulting food surpluses ... were a prerequisite for the development of ... innovative societies. ”
Guns, Germs And Steel • Jared Diamond, Ph.D. (UCLA)
“Not until the beginning of the 20th century did Europe's urban populations finally become self-sustaining: before then, constant immigration of healthy peasants from the countryside was necessary to make up for the constant deaths of city dwellers from crowd diseases.”
Guns, Germs And Steel • Jared Diamond, Ph.D. (UCLA)