Guns, germs, and steel : the fates of human societies

Título
Guns, germs, and steel : the fates of human societies

Jared M. Diamond

Resumen
Traces the development of primitive societies showing why some groups advanced more rapidly than others and how this progression explains why various populations stabilize at specific phases of development while others continue to evolve.

Fecha de publicación como intervalo
1999

Descripción física
480 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Término de la materia
Social change.
 
Civilization -- History.
 
Ethnology.
 
Human influence on nature.
 
Human ecology.

Síntesis
Traces the development of primitive societies showing why some groups advanced more rapidly than others and how this progression explains why various populations stabilize at specific phases of development while others continue to evolve.

ISBN
9780393317558
 
9780329184896

Información de publicación
New York : W. W. Norton & Co., c1999.


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