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Guns Germs And Steel»rank: 407par: Jared Diamond
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Explaining what William McNeill called The Rise of the West has become the central problem in the study of global history. ln Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond presents the biologist's answer: geography, demography, and ecological happenstance. Diamond evenhandedly reviews human history on every continent since the lce Age at a rate that emphasizes only the broadest movements of peoples and ideas. Yet his survey is binocular: one eye has the rather distant vision of the evolutionary biologist, while the other eye--and ... |
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Collapse»rank: 5673par: Jared Diamond
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed is the glass-half-empty follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel. While Guns, Germs, and Steel explained the geographic and environmental reasons why some human populations have flourished, Collapse uses the same factors to examine why ancient societies, including the Anasazi of the American Southwest and the Viking colonies of Greenland, as well as modern ones such as Rwanda, have fallen apart. Not every collapse has an environmental origin, but an ... |
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The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal»rank: 4671par: Jared Diamond
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Jared Diamond states the theme of his book up-front: 'How the human species changed, within a short time, from just another species of big mammal to a world conqueror; and how we acquired the capacity to reverse all that progress overnight.' The Third Chimpanzee is, in many ways, a prequel to Diamond's prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel. While Guns examines 'the fates of human societies,' this work surveys the longer sweep of human evolution, from our origin as just another chimpanzee a ... |
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Guns Germs And Steel Tv Tie In Edition»rank: 18574par: Jared Diamond
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Explaining what William McNeill called The Rise of the West has become the central problem in the study of global history. ln Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond presents the biologist's answer: geography, demography, and ecological happenstance. Diamond evenhandedly reviews human history on every continent since the lce Age at a rate that emphasizes only the broadest movements of peoples and ideas. Yet his survey is binocular: one eye has the rather distant vision of the evolutionary biologist, while the other eye--and ... |
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EFFONDREMENT : COMMENT LES SOCIÉTÉS DÉCIDENT DE LEUR DISPARITION OU DE LEUR SURVIE»rank: 32996par: JARED DIAMOND
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Explaining what William McNeill called The Rise of the West has become the central problem in the study of global history. ln Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond presents the biologist's answer: geography, demography, and ecological happenstance. Diamond evenhandedly reviews human history on every continent since the lce Age at a rate that emphasizes only the broadest movements of peoples and ideas. Yet his survey is binocular: one eye has the rather distant vision of the evolutionary biologist, while the other eye--and ... |
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Collapse Abridged»rank: 60835par: Jared Diamond
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed is the glass-half-empty follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel. While Guns, Germs, and Steel explained the geographic and environmental reasons why some human populations have flourished, Collapse uses the same factors to examine why ancient societies, including the Anasazi of the American Southwest and the Viking colonies of Greenland, as well as modern ones such as Rwanda, have fallen apart. Not every collapse has an environmental origin, but an ... |
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Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies»rank: 79334par: Jared Diamond
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Explaining what William McNeill called The Rise of the West has become the central problem in the study of global history. ln Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond presents the biologist's answer: geography, demography, and ecological happenstance. Diamond evenhandedly reviews human history on every continent since the lce Age at a rate that emphasizes only the broadest movements of peoples and ideas. Yet his survey is binocular: one eye has the rather distant vision of the evolutionary biologist, while the other eye--and ... |
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1000 Events That Shaped the World»rank: 119218par: National Geographic
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Explaining what William McNeill called The Rise of the West has become the central problem in the study of global history. ln Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond presents the biologist's answer: geography, demography, and ecological happenstance. Diamond evenhandedly reviews human history on every continent since the lce Age at a rate that emphasizes only the broadest movements of peoples and ideas. Yet his survey is binocular: one eye has the rather distant vision of the evolutionary biologist, while the other eye--and ... |
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The Birds of Northern Melanesia: Speciation, Ecology, and Biogeography»rank: 133492par: Ernst Mayr, Jared Diamond
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Explaining what William McNeill called The Rise of the West has become the central problem in the study of global history. ln Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond presents the biologist's answer: geography, demography, and ecological happenstance. Diamond evenhandedly reviews human history on every continent since the lce Age at a rate that emphasizes only the broadest movements of peoples and ideas. Yet his survey is binocular: one eye has the rather distant vision of the evolutionary biologist, while the other eye--and ... |
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Guns Germs And Steel»rank: 142893par: Jared Diamond
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Explaining what William McNeill called The Rise of the West has become the central problem in the study of global history. ln Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond presents the biologist's answer: geography, demography, and ecological happenstance. Diamond evenhandedly reviews human history on every continent since the lce Age at a rate that emphasizes only the broadest movements of peoples and ideas. Yet his survey is binocular: one eye has the rather distant vision of the evolutionary biologist, while the other eye--and ... |
