Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, New Edition
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With a new chapter. The phenomenal bestseller; over 1.5 million copies sold; is now a major PBS special.
Prologue : Yali's question13Pt. 1From Eden to Cajamarca33Ch. 1Up to the starting line35Ch. 2A natural experiment of history53Ch. 3Collision at Cajamarca67Pt. 2The rise and spread of food production83Ch. 4Farmer power85Ch. 5History's haves and have-nots93Ch. 6To farm or not to farm104Ch. 7How to make an almond114Ch. 8Apples or Indians131Ch. 9Zebras, unhappy marriages, and the Anna Karenina principle157Ch. 10Spacious skies and tilted axes176Pt. 3From food to guns, germs, and steel193Ch. 11Lethal gift of livestock195Ch. 12Blueprints and borrowed letters215Ch. 13Necessity's mother239Ch. 14From egalitarianism to kleptocracy265Pt. 4Around the world in five chapters293Ch. 15Yali's people295Ch. 16How China became Chinese322Ch. 17Speedboat to Polynesia334Ch. 18Hemispheres colliding354Ch. 19How Africa became black376Epilogue : the future of human history as a science403Who are the Japanese?4262003 afterword : guns, germs, and steel today450
