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03797aam a2200541 i 4500 001 0DDFD24E7F5111E8A5BED64C97128E48 003 SILO 005 20180704011050 008 171016s2017 nyuab b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2017301130 020 $a 0393354326 020 $a 9780393354324 035 $a (OCoLC)975487419 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d FMG $d JDP $d OCLCF $d YDX $d BDX $d WVU $d QQ3 $d SILO 042 $a pcc 100 1 $a Diamond, Jared M. 245 10 $a Guns, germs, and steel : $b the fates of human societies / $c Jared Diamond. 250 $a 20th Anniversary edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Norton, $c [2017] 300 $a 494 pages : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Yali's question: The regionally differing courses of history -- From Eden to Cajamarca. Up to the starting line: What happened on all the continents before 11,000 B.C.? -- A natural experiment of history: How geography molded societies on Polynesian islands -- Collision at Cajamarca: Why the Inca emperor Atahuallpa did not capture King Charles I of Spain -- The rise and spread of food production. Farmer power: The roots of guns, germs, and steel -- History's haves and have-nots: Geographic differences in the onset of food production -- To farm or not to farm: Causes of the spread of food production -- How to make an almond: The unconscious development of ancient crops -- Apples or indians: Why did peoples of some regions fail to domesticate plants? -- Zebras, unhappy marriages, and the Anna Karenina principle: Why were most big wild mammal species never domesticated? -- Spacious skies and tilted axes: Why did food production spread at different rates on different continents? -- From food to guns, germs, and steel. Lethal gift of livestock: The evolution of germs -- Blueprints and borrowed letters: The evolution of writing -- Necessity's mother: The evolution of technology -- From egalitarianism to kleptocracy: The evolution of government and religion -- Around the world in five chapters. Yali's people: The histories of Australia and New Guinea -- How China became Chinese: The history of East Asia -- Speedboat to Polynesia: The history of Austronesian expansion -- Hemispheres colliding: The histories of Eurasia and the Americas compared -- How Africa became black: The history of Africa -- The future of human history as a science -- Who are the Japanese? 2003 afterword: Guns, germs, and steel today. 520 $a The author dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors he feels are responsible for history's broadest patterns. 586 $a Pulitzer prize for general nonfiction. 650 0 $a Social evolution. 650 0 $a Civilization $x History. 650 0 $a Ethnology. 650 0 $a Human beings $x Effect of environment on. 650 0 $a Culture diffusion. 650 7 $a Civilization. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00862898 650 7 $a Culture diffusion. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00885109 650 7 $a Ethnology. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00916106 650 7 $a Human beings $x Effect of environment on. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00962843 650 7 $a Social evolution. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01122456 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 655 4 $a Nonfiction. 941 $a 9 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20230512010317.0 952 $l AQPC277 $d 20230308010444.0 952 $l BVPE851 $d 20220728012007.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20211002010438.0 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20210731010406.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20210413010615.0 952 $l ZLPD437 $d 20200520125450.0 952 $l CEAX572 $d 20200508022551.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20190406010120.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0DDFD24E7F5111E8A5BED64C97128E48 994 $a C0 $b C@VInitiate Another SILO Locator Search