TY  - BOOK
AU  - Diamond,Jared M
TI  - Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 
SN  - 9780393317558
U1  - 303.4 22
PY  - 1999///
CY  - New York
PB  - W.W. Norton & Co
KW  - Social evolution
KW  - Civilization
KW  - History
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - Human beings
KW  - Effect of environment on
KW  - Culture diffusion
KW  - Evolution (Biology)
KW  - Nature
KW  - Effect of human beings on
N1  - Gifted by Professor Jamshed Bharucha; Afterword dated 2003: cf. p. 426; Includes bibliographical references (pages 442-471) and index
N2  - This book attempts to provide a short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years. The question motivating the book is: Why did history unfold differently on different continents? In case this question immediately makes you shudder at the thought that you are about to read a racist treatise, you aren't as you will see, the answers to the question don't involve human racial differences at all. The book's emphasis is on the search for ultimate explanations, and on pushing back the chain of historical causation as far as possible
ER  -