Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies Ridenhour Book Prize (2007) "You know everything about me

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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies Ridenhour Book Prize (2007) "You know everything about meExplaining what William McNeill called The Rise of the West has become the central problem in the study of global history. In Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond presents the biologist's answer: geography, demography, and ecological happenstance. Diamond evenhandedly reviews human history on every continent since the Ice Age at a rate that emphasizes only the broadest movements of peoples and ideas. Yet his survey is binocular: one eye has the rather