00975nam a22001577a 4500 67600 67600 9780099302780 303.4 Diamond, Jared Guns, Germs, and Steel : A Short History of Everybody for the last 13,000 Years Jared Diamond London Vintage Books 2005 480 Pages 21x13 cm HB Include Maps and Index 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 Human beings--Effect of environment on Civilization Social evolution BK 0 0 0 303_400000000000000_D536G_2005 0 NFIC 65954 GPL GPL GEN 2025-04-29 CRV/238/Donation/GPLM 303.4 D536G 2005 69875 2025-04-29 2025-04-29 BK