{"product_id":"guns-germs-and-steel-the-fates-of-human-societies-anniversary","title":"Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Anniversary)","description":"\u003cdiv data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"280\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\" style=\"max-height: none; height: 280px;\"\u003e \u003cdiv data-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eWinner of the Pulitzer Prize • \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e Bestseller • Over Two Million Copies Sold\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“One of the most significant projects embarked upon by any intellectual of our generation” (Gregg Easterbrook, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eGuns, Germs, and Steel\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e presents a groundbreaking, unified narrative of human history.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhy did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse? In this “artful, informative, and delightful” (William H. McNeill, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e) book, a classic of our time, evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond dismantles racist theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for its broadest patterns.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe story begins 13,000 years ago, when Stone Age hunter-gatherers constituted the entire human population. Around that time, the developmental paths of human societies on different continents began to diverge greatly. Early domestication of wild plants and animals in the Fertile Crescent, China, Mesoamerica, the Andes, and other areas gave peoples of those regions a head start at a new way of life. But the localized origins of farming and herding proved to be only part of the explanation for their differing fates. The unequal rates at which food production spread from those initial centers were influenced by other features of climate and geography, including the disparate sizes, locations, and even shapes of the continents. Only societies that moved away from the hunter-gatherer stage went on to develop writing, technology, government, and organized religions as well as deadly germs and potent weapons of war. It was those societies, adventuring on sea and land, that invaded others, decimating native inhabitants through slaughter and the spread of disease.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA major landmark in our understanding of human societies, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eGuns, Germs, and Steel\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e chronicles the way in which the modern world, and its inequalities, came to be.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e div\u0026gt;\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50111222677789,"sku":"9780393354324","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0901\/5692\/5213\/files\/9780393354324.jpg?v=1751042585","url":"https:\/\/bookdelico.com\/products\/guns-germs-and-steel-the-fates-of-human-societies-anniversary","provider":"Book Delico ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}