| Description |
480 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 429-457) and index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. From Eden to Cajamarca -- ch. 1. Up to the starting line: What happened on all the continents before 11,000 B.C.? -- ch. 2. Natural experiment of history: how geography molded societies on Polynesian islands -- ch. 3. Collision at Cajamarca: why the Inca Emperor Atahuallpa did not capture King Charles I of Spain -- pt. 2. Rise and spread of food production -- ch. 4. Farmer power: the roots of guns, germs, and steel -- ch. 5. History's haves and have-nots: geographic differences in the onset of food production -- |
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ch. 6. To farm or not to farm: causes of the spread of food production -- ch. 7. How to make an almond: the unconscious development of ancient crops -- ch. 8. Apples or Indians: why did peoples of some regions fail to domesticate plants? -- ch. 9. Zebras, unhappy marriages, and the Anna Karenina principle: why were most big wild mammal species never domesticated? -- |
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ch. 19. Spacious skies and tilted axes: why did food production spread at different rates on different continents? -- pt. 3. From food to guns, germs, and steel -- ch. 11. Lethal gift of livestock: the evolution of germs -- ch. 12. Blueprints and borrowed letters -- ch. 13. Necessity's mother: the evolution of technology -- ch. 14. From egalitarianism to kleptocracy: The evolution of government and religion -- pt. 4. Around the world in five chapters -- ch. 15. Yali's people: the histories of Australia and New Guinea -- |
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ch. 16. How China became Chinese: the history of East Asia -- ch. 17. Speedboat to Polynesia: the history of the Austronesian expansion -- ch. 18. Hemispheres colliding: the histories of Eurasia and the Americas compared -- ch. 19. How Africa became black: the history of Africa. |
| Subject |
Social evolution.
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Social evolution. |
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Civilization -- History.
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Civilization. |
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History. |
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Ethnology.
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Ethnology. |
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Human beings -- Effect of environment on.
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Human beings -- Effect of environment on. |
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Culture diffusion.
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Culture diffusion. |
| ISBN |
0393038912 |
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