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Guns, germs, and steel: the fates of human societies
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From the Book
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.