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Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years

Jared Diamond

Book 1 of Not a series

480 pages

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This book answers the most obvious, the most important, yet the most difficult question about human history: why history unfolded so differently on different continents. Geography and biography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians

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Eye-OpeningDeeply ResearchedParadigm-ShiftingGeography over biologyAccidental historical advantageEnvironmental determinismUniversal human potential
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