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Book Condition: New
ISBN: 0393354326 / 9780393354324
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA

United States
About Item: New York: W.W. Norton, 2017. Reprint. Paperback. New. 494pp. Octavo [23 cm]. Illustrated wraps. "Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse? In this 'artful, informative, and delightful' book, a classic of our time, evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond dismantles racist theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for its broadest patterns. The story begins 13,000 years ago, when Stone Age hunter-gatherers constituted the entire human population. Around that time, the developmental paths of human societies on different continents began to diverge greatly. Early domestication of wild plants and animals in the Fertile Crescent, China, Mesoamerica, the Andes, and other areas gave peoples of those regions a head start at a new way of life. But the localized origins of farming and herding proved to be only part of the explanation for their differing fates. The unequal rates at which food… Read More
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