Guns, Germs and Steel - A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13 000 Years Jared Diamond

 Guns, Germs and Steel A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13 000 Years

Author: Jared Diamond  

Publisher: Vintage, London, England  

ISBN: 0 09 930278 0

Edition: Paperback 2008 

Language: English  

Condition: Good. Excellent. Clean copy with tight binding. Fold mark on the front cover

Binding: Softcover 

Pages: 480. Print with images 

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Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years attempts to explain why Eurasian and North African civilizations have survived and conquered others, while arguing against the idea that Eurasian hegemony is due to any form of Eurasian intellectual, moral, or inherent genetic superiority. Diamond argues that the gaps in power and technology between human societies originate primarily in environmental differences, which are amplified by various positive feedback loops. When cultural or genetic differences have favoured Eurasians (for example, written language or the development among Eurasians of resistance to endemic diseases), he asserts that these advantages occurred because of the influence of geography on societies and cultures (for example, by facilitating commerce and trade between different cultures) and were not inherent in the Eurasian genomes.

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