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Guns, Germs and Steel

The Fates of Human Societies

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

In this groundbreaking work, evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for history’s broadest patterns. It is a story that spans 13,000 years of human history, beginning when Stone Age hunter-gatherers constituted the entire human population. Guns, Germs, and Steel is a world history that really is a history of all the world’s peoples, a unified narrative of human life.

Accolades & Awards

Pulitzer Prize
1998
Evolution & Genetics Pulitzer Prize Human Geography World Civilization Anthropology Evolution Social Sciences Biological Sciences Africa Agricultural & Food Sciences China Science Ancient History Latin America Social justice Inspiring Imperial Japan Imperialism
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I may have to return this book because the narrator would constantly put me to sleep. It felt like a 5 hour dry lecture. Sorry narrator

Boring narrator

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Should have read this when it first came out. Wonderful book when it changes the way I consider the world around me.

Any believe it took me so long to finally listen

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I found this book wanting for better examples, but in whole, a good read.

Guns, Germs, and Steel, intresting....

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You'd think the subject matter would lend itself to a slow, plodding book - it doesn't. It's compelling an interesting.

Amazingly entertaining

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Interesting read. This books offers historical perspectives to the modern classification of societies from the first to the third worlds.

For a layman's curiosity in evolution of civility.

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