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Diamond, Jared, Guns, Germs and Steel: A short
history of everybody for the last 13,000 years. 1997 my
own book scans preserved

In this Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Jared Diamond argues that
both geography and the environment played major roles in
determining the shape of the modern world. This argument runs
counter to the usual theories that cite biology as the crucial factor.
Diamond claims that the cultures that were first able to domesticate
plants and animals were then able to develop writing skills, as well as
make advances in the creation of government, technology, weaponry,
and immunity to disease

Prologue: Yali's Question: The regionally
differing courses of history 13

Ch. 1 Up to the Starting Line: What happened on all
the continents before 11,000 B.C.? 35

Ch. 2 A Natural Experiment of History: How
geography molded societies on Polynesian islands 53

Ch. 3 Collision at Cajamarca: Why the Inca emperor
Atahuallpa did not capture King Charles I of Spain 67

Ch. 4 Farmer Power: The roots of guns, germs, and
steel 85

Ch. 5 History's Haves and Have-Nots: Geographic
differences in the onset of food production 93

Ch. 6 To Farm or Not to Farm: Causes of the spread
of food production 104

Ch. 7 How to Make an Almond: The unconscious
development of ancient crops 114

Ch. 8 Apples or Indians: Why did peoples of some
regions fail to domesticate plants? 131

Ch. 9 Zebras, Unhappy Marriages, and the Anna
Karenina Principle: Why were most big wild mammal species never
domesticated? 157

Ch. 10 Spacious Skies and Tilted Axes: Why did
food production spread at different rates on different continents?
176

Ch. 11 Lethal Gift of Livestock: The evolution of

germs 195
Ch. 12 Blueprints and Borrowed Letters: The
evolution of writing 215
Ch. 13 Necessity's Mother: The evolution of
technology 239
Ch. 14 From Egalitarianism to Kleptocracy: The

evolution of government and religion 265

Ch. 15 Yali's People: The... [continues]

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