![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Farmer power: The roots of guns, germs, and steel - History's haves and have-nots: Geographic differences in the onset of food production - To farm or not to farm: Causes of the spread of food production - How to make an almond: The unconscious development of ancient crops - Apples or indians: Why did peoples of some regions fail to domesticate plants? - Zebras, unhappy marriages, and the Anna Karenina principle: Why were most big wild mammal species never domesticated? - Spacious skies and tilted axes: Why did food production spread at different rates on different continents? - From food to guns, germs, and steel. Up to the starting line: What happened on all the continents before 11,000 B.C.? - A natural experiment of history: How geography molded societies on Polynesian islands - Collision at Cajamarca: Why the Inca emperor Atahuallpa did not capture King Charles I of Spain - The rise and spread of food production. Contents Yali's question: The regionally differing courses of history - From Eden to Cajamarca. Object Details Author Diamond, Jared M "With a new afterword about the modern world"-Cover. Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, African Art. ![]()
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