Jul 31, 2006
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Currently reading: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond.
From the Publisher: Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the other way around? In this groundbreaking work, an evolutionary biologist dismantles racially-based theories and reveals the environmental factors actually responsible for history’s broadest patterns. A whirlwind tour through 13,000 years of human history, beginning when Stone Age hunter-gatherers constituted the entire population. Here is a truly a world history, brilliantly written and radically new.