5/20/2023 0 Comments Guns germs and steel reviews![]() ![]() Along with guns and swords, Diamond reveals, germs became tools of conquest as Europeans infected vulnerable populations around the world with lethal diseases. It starts strongly with a description of the connections among domestication, epidemic diseases, and evolved resistance to them. Farming indirectly encouraged the development of writing systems and the organizational predecessors of modern states. The spread of agriculture allowed people to eat more nutritionally, women to have more children and laborers to expand their work beyond securing food. From the start, Diamond explains that such and undertaking as Guns, Germs, and Steel requires a person with very diverse areas of expertise, a fact that is. In Diamond’s analysis, humanity’s adaptation of agriculture drove much of human history. Food production and societal complexity stimulate each other. This book is inspired by just such a cross-cultural encounter as that. Inequality, he teaches, stems from differences in geography and agricultural potential, not regional differences in human intellectual capacity – a racist belief many people cling to still. When two strong men stand face to face,though they come from the ends of the earth. ![]() In this New York Times bestseller (more than two million copies sold), Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Jared Diamond dismisses the notion that people, not places, account for inequality among nations and continents. ![]()
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