Synopsis
Winner of the 1998 Rhone-Poulenc Science Book Prize. Purchased in Europe and was published in the UK. The book answers the most obvious,mthe most important question about human history - why history unfolded so differently on the different continents. NATURE called it "One of the most important readable works on the human past." Great book for anyone interested in popular science.
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Explaining what William McNeill called The Rise of the West has become the central problem in the study of global history. In Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond presents the biologist's answer: geography, demography, and ecological happenstance. Diamond evenhandedly reviews human history on every continent since the Ice Age at a rate that emphasizes only the broadest movements of peoples and ideas. Yet his survey is binocular: one eye has the rather distant vision of the evolutionary biologist, while the other eye--and his heart--belongs to the people of New Guinea, where he has done field work for more than 30 years.
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