Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. The New York Times Book Review, 1997 - James Shreeve An ambitious, highly important book.
Prologue: Yali's Question: The regionally differing courses of history13Ch. 1Up to the Starting Line: What happened on all the continents before 11,000 B.C.?35Ch. 2A Natural Experiment of History: How geography molded societies on Polynesian islands53Ch. 3Collision at Cajamarca: Why the Inca emperor Atahuallpa did not capture King Charles I of Spain67Ch. 4Farmer Power: The roots of guns, germs, and steel85Ch. 5History's Haves and Have-Nots: Geographic differences in the onset of food production93Ch. 6To Farm or Not to Farm: Causes of the spread of food production104Ch. 7How to Make an Almond: The unconscious development of ancient crops114Ch. 8Apples or Indians: Why did peoples of some regions fail to domesticate plants?131Ch. 9Zebras, Unhappy Marriages, and the Anna Karenina Principle: Why were most big wild mammal species never domesticated?157Ch. 10Spacious Skies and Tilted Axes: Why did food production spread at different rates on different continents?176Ch. 11Lethal Gift of Livestock: The evolution of germs195Ch. 12Blueprints and Borrowed Letters: The evolution of writing215Ch. 13Necessity's Mother: The evolution of technology239Ch. 14From Egalitarianism to Kleptocracy: The evolution of government and religion265Ch. 15Yali's People: The histories of Australia and New Guinea295Ch. 16How China became Chinese: The history of East Asia322Ch. 17Speedboat to Polynesia: The history of the Austronesian expansion334Ch. 18Hemispheres Colliding: The histories of Eurasia and the Americas compared354Ch. 19How Africa became Black: The history of Africa376Epilogue: The Future of Human History as a Science403Acknowledgments427Further Readings429Credits459Index461
