00927nam a22001337a 4500020001800000082001000018100001900028245009900047260003200146300002800178505002700206520048500233650007500718  a9780099302780  a303.4  aDiamond, Jared  aGuns, Germs, and Steel : A Short History of Everybody for the last 13,000 YearscJared Diamond  aLondonbVintage Booksc2005  a480 Pagesb21x13 cmbHB  aInclude Maps and Index  aThis 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  aHuman beings--Effect of environment onaCivilizationaSocial evolution