PART ONE FROM EDEN TO CAJAMARCA
CHAPTER 1 UP TO THE STARTING LINE
CHAPTER 2 A NATURAL EXPERIMENT OF HISTORY
CHAPTER 3 COLLISION AT CAJAMARCA
PART TWO THE RISE AND SPREAD OF FOOD PRODUCTION
CHAPTER 4 FARMER POWER
CHAPTER 5 HISTORY'S HAVES AND HAVE-NOTS
CHAPTER 6 TO FARM OR NOT TO FARM
CHAPTER 7 HOW TO MAKE AN ALMOND
CHAPTER 8 APPLES OR INDIANS
CHAPTER 9 ZEBRAS, UNHAPPY MARRIAGES, AND THE ANNA KARENINA PRINCIPLE
CHAPTER 10 SPACIOUS SKIES AND TILTED AXES
PART THREE FROM FOOD TO GUNS, GERMS, AND STEEL
CHAPTER 11 LETHAL GIFT OF LIVESTOCK
CHAPTER 12 BLUEPRINTS AND BORROWED LETTERS
CHAPTER 13 NECESSITY'S MOTHER
CHAPTER 14 FROM EGALITARIANISM TO KLEPTOCRACY
PART FOUR AROUND THE WORLD IN FIVE CHAPTERS
CHAPTER 15 YALI'S PEOPLE
CHAPTER 16 HOW CHINA BECAME CHINESE
CHAPTER 17 SPEEDBOAT TO POLYNESIA
CHAPTER 18 HEMISPHERES COLLIDING
CHAPTER 19 HOW AFRICA BECAME BLACK
CHAPTER 20 WHO ARE THE JAPANESE?
EPILOGUE THE FUTURE OF HUMAN HISTORY AS A SCIENCE

Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? And what can it teach us about our current crisis?
Jared Diamond puts the case that geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native Americans, sub-Saharan Africans, and aboriginal Australians.
An ambitious synthesis of history, biology, ecology and linguistics, Guns, Germs and Steel is a ground-breaking and humane work of popular science that can provide expert insight into our modern world.
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