Guns, Germs, and Steel
Jared Diamond's sweeping account of why some societies came to dominate others, tracing it to geography rather than race.
Jared Diamond sets out to answer why history unfolded so unequally, why some peoples conquered others rather than the reverse. His answer points not to race or intelligence but to geography: the plants, animals, and continental shapes that gave some societies an early head start in farming, technology, and immunity to disease. Sweeping and argumentative, the book reframes human history as a story shaped by environment.
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