Diamond, Jared creator text London Vintage Books 2005 monographic 480 Pages 21x13 cm HB This book answers the most obvious, the most important, yet the most difficult question about human history: why history unfolded so differently on different continents. Geography and biography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native Americans, sub-Saharan Africans, and aboriginal Australians. An ambitious synthesis of history, biology, ecology and linguistics, Guns, Germs and Steel is one of the most important and humane works of popular science Include Maps and Index Jared Diamond Human beings--Effect of environment on Civilization Social evolution 303.4 9780099302780