Diamond, Jared M.

Guns, germs, and steel : the fates of human societies / Jared Diamond. - New York : W. W. Norton & Co., c1999. - 480 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 429-457) and index.

Wilson's Public Library Pulitzer Prize Library Journal

Traces the development of primitive societies showing why some groups advanced more rapidly than others and how this progression explains why various populations stabilize at specific phases of development while others continue to evolve.

Adult Follett Library Resources Adult 1440L Lexile

0393317552 032918489X 9780393317558 0329590693 9780329184896 9780329590697


Social evolution.
Civilization--History.
Ethnology.
Human beings--Effect of environment on.
Culture diffusion.
Social change.
Civilization--History.
Ethnology.
Human influence on nature.
Human ecology.

HM206 / .D48 1999

303.4

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