Guns, germs, and steel: the fates of human societies
by Jared M. Diamond · 15 Jul 2005
of Native Americans, and Chapter 4 the development of those fac- tors from the ultimate cause of food production. In Part 3 (“From Food to Guns, Germs, and Steel,” Chapters 11-14), the connections from ulti- mate to proximate causes are traced in detail, beginning with the evolution of germs characteristic of dense human
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.C. Given the state of the world then, could the archaeologist have predicted the sequence in which human societies on the various continents would develop guns, germs, and steel, and thus predicted the state of the world today? Our archaeologist might have considered the possible advantages of a head start. If that counted for
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, while others (including ancient Egyptians) acquired it from neighbors. But, as we'll see, food production was indi- rectly a prerequisite for the development of guns, germs, and steel. Hence geographic variation in whether, or when, the peoples of different conti- nents became farmers and herders explains to a large extent their subse- quent
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, and the killing power of animal-derived germs, com- plete the list of major links between food production and conquest that we shall be exploring. Guns, Germs and Steel CHAPTER 5 HISTORY'S HAVES AND HAVE-NOTS M UCH OF HUMAN HISTORY HAS CONSISTED OF UNEQUAL conflicts between the haves and the have-nots
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finally swept upon them. The peoples of areas with a head start on food production thereby gained a head start on the path leading toward guns, germs, and steel. The result was a long series of collisions between the haves and the have-nots of history. How can we explain these geographic differences in
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wild ancestral species among the continents became an important reason why Eurasians, rather than peoples of other continents, were the ones to end up with guns, germs, and steel. How can we explain the concentration of the Ancient Fourteen in Eurasia? One reason is simple. Eurasia has the largest number of big terrestrial wild
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, and Eurasians in the last 500 years. F O O D PRODUCTION'S SPREAD proves as crucial to understanding geographic differences in the rise of guns, germs, and steel as did its ori- gins, which we considered in the preceding chapters. That's because, as we Figure 10.1. Major axes of the continents
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than New Guineans? The basic reason is Australia's suitability (in some areas) for European food production and settlement, combined with the role of European guns, germs, and steel in clearing Aborigines out of the way. While I already stressed the difficulties posed by Australia's climate and soils, its most pro- ductive or
Why the West Rules--For Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future
by Ian Morris · 11 Oct 2010 · 1,152pp · 266,246 words
perhaps destroyed Zheng’s records, ending the great age of Chinese exploration. The biologist and geographer Jared Diamond makes a similar case in his classic Guns, Germs, and Steel. His main goal is to explain why it was societies within the band of latitude that runs from China to the Mediterranean Sea that developed
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theories discussed in Chapter 1, this is almost certainly wrong, for reasons the evolutionist and geographer Jared Diamond laid out forcefully in his classic book Guns, Germs, and Steel. Nature, Diamond observed, is just not fair. Agriculture appeared in the Hilly Flanks thousands of years earlier than anywhere else not because the people living
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van der Woude. The First Modern Economy: Success, Failure, and Perseverance in the Dutch Economy, 1500–1815. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. New York: Norton, 1997. Di Cosmo, Nicola. Ancient China and Its Enemies. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Di Cosmo
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China, 15, 396, 407, 457–59, 576 European, 143, 159, 402–404, 419, 430, 431, 433, 465, 484 in Japan, 440, 443, 483, 517, 520 Guns, Germs, and Steel (Diamond), 17, 117 Gutians, 191 Gu Yanwu, 473–74, 481 Habsburgs, 445–49, 460–62, 466, 486, 526, 528, 551, 567, 573, 574 Habuba Kabira
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
by Yuval Noah Harari · 1 Mar 2015 · 479pp · 144,453 words
; Sherburne F. Cook and Lesley Byrd Simpson, The Population of Central Mexico in the Sixteenth Century (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1948). 9. Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies [in Hebrew] (Tel Aviv: Am Oved, 2002), 167. 10. Jeffery K. Taubenberger and David M. Morens, ‘1918 Influenza: The Mother
Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny
by Robert Wright · 28 Dec 2010
at different speeds. We’ve already seen some reasons for lags in cultural evolution, and there are others. The biologist Jared Diamond, in his book Guns, Germs, and Steel, has explained many such disparities via geography. For example: some areas are more blessed with readily domesticable species than others. And species spread east–west
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Waal, Frans (1982) Chimpanzee Politics. Johns Hopkins University Press. Diamond, Jared (1992) The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal. HarperPerennial. ——— (1997) Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. W. W. Norton. Dobzhansky, Theodosius (1968) “Teilhard de Chardin and the Orientation of Evolution.” Zygon 3:242–58. Dray, W
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morality Goths Gould, James Gould, Stephen Jay grasping ability Gray, Elisha Great Illusion, The (Angell) Great Wall of China Greece ancient history Grotius, Hugo guilds Guns, Germs, and Steel (Diamond) Gupta empire Guttman scale analysis Haida Indians Hallucigenia, Hamilton, William D. Hanafite school hands Hanseatic League Hardin, Garrett harness technology Harris, Marvin Hawaiian dam
A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, Eighth Edition: Chicago Style for Students and Researchers
by Kate L. Turabian · 14 Apr 2007 · 863pp · 159,091 words
's First and Last Names, Title of Book: Subtitle of Book (Place of Publication: Publisher's Name, Date of Publication), XX–XX. 1. Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1997), 47–48. B: Author's Last Name, Author's First Name. Title
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of Book: Subtitle of Book. Place of Publication: Publisher's Name, Date of Publication. Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1997. For a book with an editor instead of an author, adapt the
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–XX. 10. Hall et al., 91–93. * * * Author-Title Notes * * * 4. Books N: Note Number. Author's Last Name, Shortened Title, XX–XX. 2. Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel, 85–90. For books by more than one author, follow the pattern for authors' names in templates 2 and 3. * * * 5. Articles N: Note Number
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notes, these elements are enclosed in parentheses; in bibliography entries, they are not. N: 1. Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1997), 47. B: Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1997. For books published
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's Last Name, Author's First Name. Date of Publication. Title of book: Subtitle of book. Place of Publication: Publisher's Name. Diamond, Jared. 1997. Guns, germs, and steel: The fates of human societies. New York: W. W. Norton and Company. P: (Author's Last Name Date of Publication, XX–XX) (Diamond 1997, 47
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publication, the date, appears as a separate element following the author's name in this citation style; see 19.1.2.) R: Diamond, Jared. 1997. Guns, germs, and steel: The fates of human societies. New York: W. W. Norton and Company. For books published before the twentieth century, or for which the information does
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by Steven Pinker · 13 Feb 2018 · 1,034pp · 241,773 words
, or the Americas, was the first continent to give birth to expansive civilizations (as documented by Sowell in his Culture trilogy and Jared Diamond in Guns, Germs, and Steel).129 It explains why the fountains of culture have always been trading cities on major crossroads and waterways.130 And it explains why human beings
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-in-the-twentieth-century. Diamandis, P., & Kotler, S. 2012. Abundance: The future is better than you think. New York: Free Press. Diamond, J. M. 1997. Guns, germs, and steel: The fates of human societies. New York: Norton. Dinda, S. 2004. Environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis: A survey. Ecological Economics, 49, 431–55. Dobbs, R., Madgavkar
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to sources listed in the bibliography] BARLOW, GEORGE (2002) The Cichlid Fishes: Nature's Grand Experiment in Evolution. Perseus Publishing, Cambridge, Mass. DIAMOND, JARED (1997) Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 1 3,000 Years. Chatto & Windus. London. FORTEY, RICHARD (1997) Life: An Unauthorised Biography. Harper Collins, London
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Jared Diamond explored how pivotal the domestication of farm animals was in the course of human history and medicine in his Pulitzer Prize–winning book Guns, Germs, and Steel. In the chapter “Lethal Gift of Livestock,” he argued convincingly that the diseases we contracted through the domestication of animals may have been critical for
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
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The physiologist Jared Diamond is a proponent of ideas in evolutionary psychology and of consilience between the sciences and the humanities, particularly history.24 In Guns, Germs, and Steel he rejected the standard assumption that history is just one damn thing after another and tried to explain the sweep of human history over tens
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gossip. New York: Basic Books. Diamond, J. 1992. The third chimpanzee: The evolution and future of the human animal. New York: HarperCollins. Diamond, J. 1997. Guns, germs, and steel: The fates of human societies. New York: Norton. Diamond, J. 1998. Why is sex fun? The evolution of human sexuality. New York: Basic Books. Diamond
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Society Green, Ronald Greene, Graham Grogger, Jeff group mind see also superorganism group selection Group Socialization theory public reaction to Gulag Archipelago, The (Solzhenitsyn) guns Guns, Germs, and Steel (Diamond) Guns of August, The (Tuchman) Gur, Batya Gur, Raquel Gypsies habit system Hacking, Ian Hadley, Robert Haidt, Jonathan Haldane, J. B. S. Halpern, Diane
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multiplies beyond comprehension and, along with, it the laws and regulations needed to insure relative harmony and efficiency. As Diamond explains in his 1996 book Guns, Germs, and Steel, Once the threshold of “several hundred,” below which everyone can know everyone else, has been crossed, increasing numbers of dyads become pairs of unrelated strangers
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governance, but we can use the comparative method to compare the outcomes of different economic and political systems, which is what Jared Diamond did in Guns, Germs, and Steel to explain the differential rates of development of different peoples around the world over the past 13,000 years.19 A dramatic experiment began in
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: William Morrow. 3. Quoted in Madison, James. 2006. Selected Writings of James Madison. Ralph Ketcham (Ed.). Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing, 122. 4. Diamond, Jared. 1996. Guns, Germs, and Steel. New York: W. W. Norton, p. 268. 5. Jefferson, Thomas. 1804. “Letter to Judge John Tyler Washington.” June 28. https://bit.ly/292vEbR 6. Personal
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. 2003. “Contraceptive Use Is Key to Reducing Abortion Worldwide.” The Guttmacher Report on Public Policy, 6:4. http://bit.ly/1jG3rU0 19. Diamond, Jared. 1996. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. New York: W. W. Norton. 20. Bajpai, Prableen. 2015. “North Korean vs. South Korean Economies.” Investopedia. http://bit.ly/2peBHE7
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