"With a new afterword about the modern world"--Cover. Includes "Reading group guide"--p. [495-496]. Yali's question: The regionally differing courses of history -- From Eden to Cajamarca. Up to the ...

So far, Jared Diamond has demonstrated how geography favoured one group of people – Europeans – endowing them with agents of conquest ahead of their rivals around the world. Guns, germs and steel ...

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"Why is it that human history unfolded so differently on different continents over the last 13,000 years? I found the question so fascinating that I just had to write the book," Diamond said, ...

The secret of their success? Guns, Germs and Steel. Ever since, people of European origin have dominated the globe, with the same combination of military power, lethal microbes and advanced technology ...

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