Guns, Germs and Steel

The Fates of Human Societies

494 sivua : kuvitettu, 480 pages

English language

Published 1997 by W.W. Norton.

ISBN:
978-0-393-03891-0
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OCLC Number:
519701464
Finna ID:
aalto.992724834406526

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Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse? In this groundbreaking book, evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for history's broadest patterns. Here, at last, is a world history that really is a history of all the world's peoples, a unified narrative of human life even more intriguing and important than accounts of dinosaurs and glaciers.

The story begins 13,000 years ago, when Stone Age hunter-gatherers constituted the entire human population. Around that time, paths of development of human societies on different continents began to diverge greatly. Early domestication of wild plants and animals in the Fertile Crescent, China, Mesoamerica, the southeastern United States, and other areas gave peoples of those regions a head start. Why wheat and corn, cattle and pigs, and the modern world's other "blockbuster" crops …

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Subjects

  • Human beings Effect of environment on.
  • Culture diffusion.
  • Ethnology.
  • Civilization History.
  • Social evolution.
  • Human beings Effect on environment on.
  • kulttuurimaantiede.
  • ihminen.
  • evoluutio.
  • ympäristö.
  • sivilisaatio.
  • kulttuurievoluutio.
  • sosiologia.
  • rodut.
  • kulttuurihistoria.
  • kehitysteoriat.
  • sosiaalinen muutos.
  • historia.
  • leviäminen.
  • kotieläimet.
  • tartuntataudit.
  • kirjoitustaito.
  • löytöretket.
  • väestöhistoria.
  • viljelykasvit.
  • kulttuuriantropologia.
  • antropologia.
  • maanviljelyskulttuurit.
  • siirtomaat.
  • yhteiskunta.
  • sivistys.
  • kulttuuri.
  • tekniset tieteet.
  • kulturgeografi.
  • människan.
  • evolution.
  • miljö.
  • civilisation.
  • kulturell evolution.
  • sociologi.
  • raser.
  • kulturhistoria.
  • utvecklingsteorier.
  • social förändring.
  • spridning (process)
  • husdjur.
  • smittsamma sjukdomar.
  • skrivfärdighet.
  • upptäcktsresor.
  • befolkningshistoria.
  • kulturväxter.
  • kulturantropologi.
  • antropologi.
  • jordbrukskulturer.
  • kolonier (stater)
  • samhället.
  • bildning.
  • kultur.
  • tekniska vetenskaper.
  • tekniikka
  • diffusion (sociologi)
  • cajamarca

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