Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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Ratings14
Average rating4.1
In this Pulitzer Prize winner, Diamond dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for history's broadest patterns.
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What an enjoyable read. Perhaps a bit dry, but it is hard to write about these kind of topics without a little bit dry feeling. Still I learned more about the human history and why certain parts were more prone to move forward than others. Recommended.
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3 primary booksCivilizations Rise and Fall is a 3-book series with 3 primary works first released in 1991 with contributions by Jared M. Diamond and Jared Diamond.
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